Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll

The England PJ Harvey paints isn't the green and pleasant idyll of popular imagination, but a dear and bruised and bedraggled thingA few weeks back, I interviewed Colin Meloy of the Decemberists for these pages. Sitting in his study in Oregon, we discussed many things, from tea-drinking to highwaymen, but one subject we returned to often was the new sense of Americanness that had permeated his songs; the fact that, after several years of steeping himself in English folk song, he seemed to have ...

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