![]() I'm a pop music girl, and I have lived with this insecurity that my musical tastes were never quite edgy or interesting enough. You had the Ramones and Velvet Underground, and I was listening to Depeche Mode and Janet Jackson. ![]() Martin: At this point, I should admit that I was nervous to even have this conversation with you because that Dolly Parton song was one of the only songs that I knew in this book when I was looking through the table of contents and immediately I thought, "What did you think was going to happen, Rachel?" You were listening to way cooler stuff when you were growing up, right? No matter who sings it, that part drives me crazy.Īnd to me, the song has never really earned that big of a chorus. That's where the hair on the back of my neck starts to stand up or something, on all the versions. Martin: Before you redeem yourself though, before you get to play the guy who can recognize the beauty in all things, can you just tell me what you don't like about the song? And I think being able to make peace with not knowing why you don't like something is good. I think finding out what you like and don't like is all a part of making your life better, you know? And being able to recognize and reflect and introspect on what you don't like and why. Tweedy: First of all, I wouldn't say I despise it, and I also wouldn't go so far as to say it's not made my life better. But there's also the original, Dolly Parton's version, which you write about. Martin: Of course there's Whitney Houston's much acclaimed top 40 version. This song is included because you despise this song. Martin: So, this song is included not as a song that changed your life for the better. That's the goal of meditation.ĭolly Parton performs "I Will Always Love You" YouTube You're just sitting on the dock of the bay. Martin: If we stay in a religious vein, I'm stretching a little bit, but I want to talk about Otis Redding and "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay," because I think this is the most Buddhist of songs. And I thought that was really beautiful, and it felt more honest than any experience I'd ever had in any organized religion. That made sense to me, and in a way you could take that as almost anything, you know - look for beauty, look for whatever sacred means to you. He said what matters is that you search for the sacred. ![]() When he asked our rabbi what he should do if he doesn't believe in God, the rabbi said it didn't matter that he didn't believe in God. And now it's not a funny joke at all.īut I was intrigued by my older son's experience at our temple and the tolerance of a lot of different viewpoints. Tweedy: Well, I joked at the time, even to the rabbi, that I just thought that I should be on the same team as my family when something goes down. You could have just bailed at the end of that, but you decided to convert. Not on Christianity, but you ended up converting to Judaism in large part, as I understand it, because your son was going through the process of being bar mitzvahed, your wife is Jewish, and you were taking Hebrew classes alongside him to motivate him. Rachel Martin: You write in the book that the song that made the first "dent in your musical mind" is "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. I think it's just the nature of having been immersed in records for my whole life, I guess. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The highest form of music is that kind that makes people feel less alone. And even though you will hear us disagree about the storytelling integrity of a Dolly Parton classic, we agree on something very fundamental. ![]() This book is his tribute to the songs and songwriters that inspired him to start making music in the first place - and then to keep doing it for a long time. And he's a lovely guy who bears no responsibility for my personal insecurities. The lead singer of Wilco thought he was coming on for an NPR interview about his new book World Within A Song, and he got my emotional baggage about musical preferences.īut, I promise, we talked about so much more. ![]()
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