Justin Tussing - Vexation Lullaby

37 I don’t think she was making a pun with my name.

38 I almost never listen to music, since a car stereo isn’t so appealing when you’re accustomed to a concert hall crammed with living sound.

39 The ones with the most remarkable voices, almost universally, have terrible personal histories that lend their voices a battered weight. I’m thinking of Etta James, Roy Orbison, Sarah Vaughan, maybe, to a lesser extent, Dolly Parton. Pretty people with pretty voices end up on Broadway.

40 It seemed a mystery at the time: later it came out in GuitarStar that he’d had surgery for a bone spur.

41 When Cross took the stage at the Springfield Armory on September 16, 1994, Mark Washington sat behind Jeff Hickok’s drum set. Deke Purcell replaced Owen Soppe at rhythm guitar and Fat Ronnie Hood — the Gospel Don — didn’t return after the first set.

42 That majestic building now houses the utterly soulless Hard Rock Hotel.

43 Sutliff has a real voice and Albert can sing. Dom, on the other hand, sounds like he’s testifying in a deposition — it’s joyless.

44 The nicest thing any reviewer said: No one will ever allege the younger Cross had help writing these songs .

45 That no one thought to bring out a chair earlier suggests to me that the whole appearance is unscripted.