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Just a brief note here for anyone who might be looking for post-show comments about the Reivers reunion in Austin this past weekend -- I'm refraining from that for the moment on account of having been assigned to write something about it for a Texas publication (I'll post an update once it's wrapped up and in print). Suffice to say the shows were quite a hit -- two sold-out nights of terrific performances (24 songs each night, with two songs different in the set list between Saturday and Sunday).

One song they didn't play was Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You", which appears as a bonus track on the Dualtone Records reissue of Saturday. Last night, I went to see a young and very talented singer-songwriter from Canada named Basia Bulat at the Triple Door in Seattle, and, lo and behold, she played "True Love Will Find You", to close out her set. (Another odd coincidence is that Bulat's voice is rather reminiscent of that of K. McCarty, the most accomplished interpreter of Daniel Johnston's work -- see her mid-'90s disc of all Johnston tunes, Dead Dog's Eyeball.)

On this Valentine's Day, it's worth revisiting Daniel's words of inspiration: "True love is searching too..."

adios,
peter

Posted by peter on February 14, 2008 8:18 AM | Permalink