{"id":260472,"date":"2021-05-27T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-geographical-guide-to-superwolves\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:20:26","slug":"a-geographical-guide-to-superwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-geographical-guide-to-superwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"#A geographical guide to Superwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26ea8f3cb39\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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id=\"content_block-222375\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      A geographical guide to Superwolves\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney guide us through the cities that have defined their lives and careers.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill_byPeteTownsend-scaled_vytdkl\/superwolves-geographical-guide-will-oldham-matt-sweeney-bonnie-prince-billy-interview-2021.jpg\" 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill_byPeteTownsend-scaled_vytdkl\/superwolves-geographical-guide-will-oldham-matt-sweeney-bonnie-prince-billy-interview-2021.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill_byPeteTownsend-scaled_vytdkl\/superwolves-geographical-guide-will-oldham-matt-sweeney-bonnie-prince-billy-interview-2021.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A geographical guide to Superwolves\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Pete Townsend<br \/>\n        \/<\/p>\n<p>      Pitch Perfect<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" 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Start with Oldham\u2019s debut album as Palace Brothers, <i>There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You<\/i>, in 1993, on which he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2sNd_dZxDrY\">faithfully recreated Washington Phillips\u2019s celestial \u201cI Had a Good Father and Mother,\u201d<\/a> drag your pen around a 30-year career so thick with allusion and reinterpretation and creativity that Oldham covered <i>himself<\/i> countless times (<i>Bonnie \u2018Prince\u2019 Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music<\/i> was a whole album of Oldham reworking Oldham), and you\u2019ll end up somewhere near the present, with his version of Billie Eilish\u2019s \u201cwish you were gay.\u201d Eilish and her brother Finneas were born years after Oldham released his first record, adding another odd angle to the psychedelic-looking shape on your scrap of paper. And that\u2019s before you consider Sweeney\u2019s old band <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p2H6RLKGNDc\">Chavez\u2019s primal take on the <i>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/i> song \u201cLittle Twelvetoes.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            On Oldham and Sweeney\u2019s triumphant new album, <i>Superwolves<\/i> \u2014 their first together since their debut, <i>Superwolf<\/i>, released in 2005 and passed around feverishly by acolytes ever since \u2014 they cover two songs. One is a spare take on the brutally lonesome \u201cThere Must Be a Someone (I Can Turn To),\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SdDHi6gIdKw\">written by Vern Gosdin<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymX4CWXwwas\">made semi-famous by The Byrds a half-century ago<\/a>. The other is \u201cI Am a Youth Inclined to Ramble,\u201d a traditional song that can\u2019t be traced back to any specific date but finds its footing in the present day via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T1qAV3SShEk\">the Irish folk musician Paul Brady\u2019s arrangement<\/a>. It tells the story of a young man leaving to find his fortune in America, fearing that his sweetheart won\u2019t be there when he returns. <\/p>\n<p>            Maybe it\u2019s too easy to suggest that Oldham and Sweeney saw themselves in the song\u2019s narrator and protagonist, but they have both lived somewhat nomadic lives over the past three decades, leaving their homes and families to tour: sometimes with each other for company, sometimes with other members of a rotating cast, occasionally alone, almost always reveling in the thrilling spontaneity of live performance. And, as they told me on a video call around the album\u2019s release \u2014 Sweeney sprawled out on the couch at his apartment in Manhattan, Oldham at the home he shares with his wife and daughter in Louisville \u2014 Oldham\u2019s relationship with Brady\u2019s music is only this deep because of a night spent in Dublin some time in the late-\u201990s, with the radio on and the backstage packed after yet another Bonnie \u201cPrince\u201d Billy show. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            What became clear after asking them to talk about the cities that have defined their lives and careers is that Oldham and Sweeney consciously have a reciprocal relationship with space. For every ounce of energy the two have given to the places they\u2019ve passed through in their careers, they know they\u2019ve absorbed just as much. Superwolves <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach concert venues, bars, abandoned churches, and studios in the same way that they approach old songs: assessing the energy around them, nodding to the past, and then creating something utterly original.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222126\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dublin_Ireland\"><\/span>\n        Dublin, Ireland<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonnie &#039;Prince&#039; Billy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-VJ3Uzu7fk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>Dublin was the first place Oldham and Sweeney played live as a duo. Though neither Sweeney nor Oldham can remember exactly when the show happened, or who exactly was in the band that night, it seems likely that it was either October 27 or 28, 2001 with David M. Curry and Mike Walker.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><b>Matt Sweeney:<\/b> I can\u2019t remember who was in the band but for various reasons we decided that in the middle of a set we would do it s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped-down. We decided, I think right before we played, \u201cLet\u2019s just tell this guy to sit these two songs out. We\u2019ll just do them by ourselves.\u201d When we did them, they sounded really good. Will wasn\u2019t playing, he was just singing. I had a distinct moment of thinking, \u201cOh shit, this is really cool.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b>Will Oldham:<\/b> Dublin was a better post-show city than anywhere. There\u2019s a possibility that you\u2019re going to have some musical experiences. I\u2019ve never experienced that in London, where after a show there\u2019s something to do that involves something interesting, fun, great \u2014 whether it\u2019s listening to recorded music or talking about music. It\u2019s usually just drinking or something like that, which is not that exciting. And London would <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly shut down earlier than any city in the United States, hilariously and quaintly. But in Dublin, you might even have somebody come backstage afterwards and see a guitar and pick it up and start playing a song and you don\u2019t leave the backstage area for an hour and a half or two hours because music is happening backstage, which is awesome.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> The first time I went to Dublin was playing with Bonnie Prince Billy in the \u201990s. And that was my first experience with music culture in Ireland. I actually had a lot of American-Irish music culture, because my dad was a bagpiper, but I didn\u2019t know what a lock-in was. You lock the doors and you fucking play music until everybody drops. That\u2019s amazing. That was hugely inspiring. <\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> I remember being in Dublin one night, sitting around with Irish friends including Leagues O\u2019Toole, the promoter of pretty much all the shows I\u2019ve ever done in Ireland. We were listening to modern popular radio, talking about different songs as they come on \u2014 it\u2019s mostly modern R&amp;B that\u2019s playing on this radio station. And then at a certain point, the song called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zuKQVn28PGY\">\u201cThe Island\u201d by Paul Brady<\/a> comes on. And everyone in the room goes quiet, the conversation shifts to Paul Brady and the significance of the song. You\u2019re in a room full of people in the middle of the night, and you get to talk about music with people who think about music and care about music, which is just not something that happens a lot in the United States, for example.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222127\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Porto_Portugal\"><\/span>\n        Porto, Portugal<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_7_ofu8tl\/superwolves-in-london-in-2003-a-day-or-two-before-traveling-to-porto-contact-sheet-by-steve-gullick.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A geographical guide to Superwolves\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Superwolves in London in 2003, a day or two before traveling to Porto. Contact sheet by Steve Gullick.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>Oldham and Sweeney travelled to Europe as a duo in October 2003. They played three shows in three nights: two in London and one at Bla Bla in Porto. The three-day mini-tour marked the first time they\u2019d played <\/i>Superwolf <i>songs live<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> I remember Porto vividly. It was a good long set, two or three hours. We were just playing more and more songs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> I remember in London, we were on a stage and it was in a theater. But in Porto we were in the middle of a club, it was loose. I think people were excited to see Will by himself, and they didn\u2019t know what the hell I was doing. As I recall, it was fun and I felt like things landed. But that\u2019s what\u2019s fun about it, the whole idea of hearing the songs in real time with other people\u2019s ears as you\u2019re playing them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> The energy does the opposite of drop in the room. Some of it will have to do with the songs and some of it will have to do just with the chemistry between you, me, and the audience. It\u2019s an exciting moment to realize that you\u2019re presenting something in a performative way that is hitting home. Nobody\u2019s bringing anything. Nobody\u2019s thinking, \u201cOh, I know this song.\u201d All they have to react to is the barest things that we\u2019re offering, which are pretty fucking spare. People will respond to it strongly enough that it encourages us to move forward. We have no idea what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222128\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Big_Sur_CA\"><\/span>\n        Big Sur, CA<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Big_Sur_photo_by_Joanna_Newsom_a4jg5w\/sweeney-and-oldham-in-big-sur-photo-by-joanna-newsom.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A geographical guide to Superwolves\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Sweeney and Oldham in Big Sur. Photo by Joanna <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>In January 2005, a few days before the release of<\/i> Superwolf, <i>Oldham and Sweeney were travelling up the West Coast. Between shows at record stores to quietly promote the release, they stopped for a two-night stint at the Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, at the behest of Folk Yeah! founder Britt Govea, who would soon establish himself as a legendary producer who could attract huge artists to intimate and unlikely venues in California.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> I have really loved to play in places that are great venues, but haven\u2019t been used as great venues or discovered as great venues. And especially that set. We were totally figuring things out, and it\u2019s nice for the audience on that same page. It\u2019s subliminal: \u201cWhat is this space? What is this music?\u201d Not to feel like, \u201cThis is my bar. This is my theater. This is where I go to see music.\u201d To immediately dismantle the idea of an expectation, walk in its discovery: \u201cOkay, now I can approach whatever I\u2019m going to witness with a free and open mind.\u201d Everybody travels to Big Sur because it\u2019s a tiny little settlement. So we are all escaping, and the one thing that we know we\u2019re doing all together is embarking on this musical adventure, the audience and us as performers. We\u2019re in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Matt has a dear old friend, a scientist, who\u2019s based in San Francisco. A constant feature of our trips to San Francisco would be that he would meet us, usually with a test tube or two with a bit of cotton gauze soaked in pharmaceutical-grade ether. And that would be part of our recreational activity during the days that surround a Bay Area appearance. And then we would usually go to Haight Street and go into a head shop and buy some canisters of nitrous, a cracker, and balloons. At Big Sur, in our little motel room, we had one of those dispensers they have in Marx Brothers <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> that they use to spray soda water. We\u2019d put the nitrous canister in that and we\u2019d just take our massive hits of the nitrous. We did a couple of really strong rounds of that right before going and playing. And once again that served to completely reset our minds, just clean out all the clutter and the bullshit. All of a sudden it was just: <i>Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?<\/i> Play these songs. <i>Is there anything else I need to do in this world?<\/i> No. Don\u2019t worry about it. We\u2019ll talk about it later. Just play.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody had anywhere to go except be there with us.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222342\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_York_NY\"><\/span>\n        New York, NY<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69Em6ySaRRg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69Em6ySaRRg<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>New York is Sweeney\u2019s home; he lives on the Lower East Side. He and Oldham have of course played dozens of shows in the city over the past three decades, but among the most notable were the five they played on May 3, 2005, between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., at record stores across Manhattan and Brooklyn, to promote<\/i> Superwolf.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> It was fun because, again, we played some spaces that were regular hosts to music and we played other spaces that maybe had never had music before or since. We had to claw our way through people and then get up there. All the confrontation and innocence was in absolutely full effect that day.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> Come to think of it, Big Sur and the New York thing are really good examples of the Will Oldham way of doing things differently. Why do drummers have to sit down? There actually is no reason. There\u2019s all sorts of things within the rock club performance, everything that is taken for granted, and most of them were randomly decided.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> And then they get piled on top of each other so that playing music and putting out a record \u2014 if you think the way people think you should \u2014 becomes oppressive, tiresome, and impossible.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> The opposite of what it\u2019s supposed to be. Because I lived in New York there were always the in-stores. I used to really not like playing them, but Will pointed out what can happen at an in-store: it\u2019s a fresh way of presenting music. It\u2019s putting things in a different context, there\u2019s spontaneity. And why shouldn\u2019t you play at a record store for God\u2019s sake? They\u2019re the most important places in the world. They are places for music, so go and play music there.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222343\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nashville_TN\"><\/span>\n        Nashville, TN<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MattWill-ButcherShoppe-byPeteTownsend_mqtyq9\/sweeney-and-oldham-recording-i-superwolves-i-at-the-butcher-shoppe-in-nashville-photo-by-pete-townsend.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A geographical guide to Superwolves\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Sweeney and Oldham recording <i>Superwolves<\/i> at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville. Photo by Pete Townsend.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>Oldham and Sweeney first met sound engineer David \u201cFerg\u201d Ferguson through Johnny Cash in the early-aughts. Ferguson\u2019s studio, The Butcher Shoppe, became a regular stop for both artists over the years. They recorded all but five of the <\/i>Superwolves<i> songs with Ferguson at The Butcher Shoppe, which has since closed its doors.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> What Nashville has to offer is the people in the studios, playing music in a room together. There\u2019s probably not another place that has as many people who are good at doing that as Nashville. And specifically The Butcher Shoppe, where we were incredibly fortunate to be able to have our Nashville home. That\u2019s all via David Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> Ferg in many ways, physically and spiritually, resembles the Dr. Seuss character The Lorax. It was in Germantown, a neighborhood that was not on anybody\u2019s map when the studio was established. It was this really beautiful wasteland. Was there a slaughterhouse there?<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> That was a cattle processing plant, that whole place.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> Just weird old industrial buildings that would be quasi-occupied by transient businesses. And now\u2026 the studio closed about a year ago, and just buildings were rising all around it. High-rises were rising. Everywhere you looked. They were thinking about moving the building or maybe just demolishing it so that they could build more high-rises in this zone. But for a while it still was this weird old industrial building where, down in the basement, David Ferguson and Sean Sullivan were bringing Nashville\u2019s greatest living session musicians to have fun and make great music. Even as the city started to develop and overwhelm it.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding it as Music City USA, someone like me would go there and just think, \u201cWell, there\u2019s Ernest Tubb Record Shop and that\u2019s great, but I don\u2019t get it. I don\u2019t see country music anywhere.\u201d It doesn\u2019t feel like a country music place. Because it\u2019s happening inside of people\u2019s office buildings and inside their heads. <\/p>\n<p>I started going when I needed to make a record and David Berman had moved there, and Harmony Korine is from there basically. And started working with this guy, Mark Nevers, and started to get some experience of what session musicians were there and how Nashville really worked and didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Ferg brought the city to life for us and brought its history to life for us through encounters with all of his friends, whether they\u2019re musicians or anybody else. And then just taking us to bars, taking us to restaurants, taking us around the city, taking us on drug runs, whatever we needed to do. But we learned why Nashville indeed was Music City and with Ferg\u2019s help, and to some extent with Mark Nevers\u2019s help. We had a passport into that history so that, yeah, we could join the lineage.<\/p>\n<p>Now it doesn\u2019t resemble itself in any way, shape, or form, and many or most of the things that connected Nashville to its past have been overshadowed and or obliterated.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-222344\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Louisville_KY\"><\/span>\n        Louisville, KY<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Surface_Noise_in_Louisville_2019_just_before_recording_Superwolves_hssjka\/oldham-and-sweeney-performing-at-surface-noise-in-louisville-just-before-recording-i-superwolves-i.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A geographical guide to Superwolves\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Oldham and Sweeney performing at Surface Noise in Louisville, just before recording <i>Superwolves<\/i>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><i>Oldham was born and raised in Louisville, and he lives in the city now with his wife, Elsa, and daughter, Poppy. The first Superwolf record was recorded in Shelbyville, about 45 minutes away. Many of the songs from <\/i>Superwolves <i>were performed for the first time at an intimate show at Louisville\u2019s Surface Noise Records.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> Louisville is one of the last few distinctive American cities. If there was a base for Superwolf it would have to be Louisville.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oldham:<\/b> I think there are a lot of American cities that have strong identities once you\u2019re in and among them. But I do know that, for whatever reason throughout the 20th century, there was a dedication \u2014 a citywide dedication, a bottom-up and top-down dedication \u2014 to arts and culture. My generation were the beneficiaries of a lingering legacy. It wasn\u2019t as active by the even mid-to late-\u201980s, but I think there was an understanding that the arts were vital and were something that could be participated in. The kids I grew up with got engaged with making music, it wasn\u2019t simple rebellion. There was hell of a lot of creativity and expression. It wasn\u2019t just something for kids to do with their spare time to rebel or get their rocks off. It was part of a lineage and it was something serious that you could be engaged with. <\/p>\n<p>Even when they were doing ridiculous things like being a band called The Dickbrains [singer-songwriter Catherine Irwin\u2019s teenage band], they were also taking it very seriously: \u201cI\u2019m in The Dickbrains and this is surreal and ridiculous. That\u2019s why we\u2019re fucking calling it The Dickbrains.\u201d Or my brother\u2019s band, Languid and Flaccid, had a song called \u201cFire Engines\u201d where they made tons of noise and then would stop and say \u201cfire engines!\u201d and then make more noise. And these were 12-, 13-, 14-year-old people, who are still active. A couple of those guys [Britt Walford and Brian McMahan] formed Slint later and made Spiderland, and people all over the world still listen to that record and are influenced by that record. <\/p>\n<p><b>Sweeney:<\/b> When we were rehearsing the songs for that show [at Surface Noise] that night, Steve Albini came over just to hang and to have a snack or something. Will\u2019s daughter and his wife were there too. We were running these songs just to make sure that we didn\u2019t completely fuck them up in front of people, and there\u2019s Steve Albini. We were sitting on beanbag chairs or some shit.<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty wild, playing this music that\u2019s acoustic and it\u2019s pretty. We worked really hard on it, and it\u2019s definitively vulnerable. It seemed to make perfect sense to play that in front of this guy who did songs about fucking, this terrifying kind of Dark Lord figure to me in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Oldham: Being there with my wife, my at-that-time one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and Steve just sitting in the living room at our house and playing these songs. We were playing a show, essentially, but just for Steve, Poppy, and Elsa. That\u2019s a pretty great representation of as crucial of an audience as one can get.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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