St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness

from-the-headlines songwriting.) I don’t remember if either Blind Willie Johnson or Minnie Wallace ever came up while we were making Game Theory, but those were the kinds of songs we had in mind: outward blues. The world had just gone wrong, was continuing to go wrong, whether it was the breached levees in New Orleans or the murder rate in Philadel

I finally felt in my body how music worked. A chorus of nonbelievers, channeling God. A harmonic coming together capable of overtaking lyrics about drift and catastrophe, a song as proof that people can work together.