May 5, 2025
Just finished POPROCK season 1, no spoilers.
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Just finished POPROCK season 1, no spoilers.
Take our strong hand, pumpkin! 🖐️ We’re back in the parody trenches with Scary Movie 2. It’s our first time braving this unhinged haunted house of bad manners, sinister slapstick, and the most chaotic dinner in cinematic history! Grab your crucifix and get ready to use and abuse it... ✝️😱 😏🔪
Our Scary Movie reaction is live, but Patreon Pumpkins get the very raunchy, uncut version. Come giggle, shriek, and clutch your popcorn with us! Patreon.com/PettyPumpkins 👈
Outlaw You by Shooter Jennings - Directed by Blake Judd
It never connected in my head that Alanna Masterson was Danny & Chris’ sis and so obviously, a Scientologist. I’ve never cared for Tara that deeply as a character on TWD but this makes the cringe factor for Alanna go sky high bc...ugh what a weird, dangerous cult.
Plus...yeah...your brother is rapist scum.
Steve Earle & the Dukes at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio, June 10, 2018
“And that, folks, is Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle said after he and the Dukes played his third LP top to bottom in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
The comment served not only as a mid-set demarcation line for the two-hour concert before a couple of hundred fans inside Columbus’ Newport Music Hall, it also served as the only acceptable excuse for the otherwise-unforgivable sin of playing a Christmas song - the LP-closing “Nothing But a Child” - in the dead heat of summer.
Getting to that point was an exercise in stylistic and thematic shifts as Earle and Company played with a sharp edge on Side One’s Vietnam-inspired tracks such as “Back to the Wall” and “The Devil’s Right Hand” before moving into Byrdsian folk-rock (“Even When I’m Blue”) and Bo Diddley beats (“You Belong to Me”) on Side Two, the love-song side, of the 1988 album.
The grimy Newport and its unadorned stage suited Earle and the Dukes’ music to a T. Though it was gritty, the music was also eclectic as Earle, who accompanied himself on acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and harmonica, surrounded himself with a crew of equally adept multi-instrumentalists including Chris Masterson (acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin), Eleanor Whitmore (fiddle, tenor guitar, mandolin, keys), Ricky Ray Jackson (pedal steel, electric guitar, accordion, keys) Kelly Looney (electric and double bass) and powerhouse drummer Brad Pemberton, who put on a clinic from the opening “Copperhead Road” to the powerhouse, main-set closing rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s arrangement of Love’s “Hey Joe.”
Masterson and Whitmore - as the Mastersons - opened with a 30-minute set of originals delivered in sparse, acoustic arrangements. It was a pleasant, low-key performance that didn’t begin to hint at the power the husband-and-wife duo bring to the full-band setting of the Dukes.
A generous bandleader, Earle gave each Duke an opportunity to shine with Whitmore ably reprising Iris DeMent’s vocal parts on “I’m Still in Love with You,” Masterson taking solo after stylistically diverse solo on a half-dozen different axes and Jackson adding occasional leads and colorful fills to virtually all the 24 songs that were played.
Dressed in black with blue bandanas tied around his head and wrist, Earle is like an outlaw version of Bruce Springsteen, singing everyman songs with a left-wing political bent that’s sometimes so subtle, people will miss it if they’re not playing close attention. Also like Springsteen, Earle finds himself in the midst of a late-career renaissance, as a triad of fire-breathing tracks from 2017’s So You Wannabe an Outlaw were among the highlights of a career-spanning set.
At 63, Earle has no plans to slow down. He told the crowd he and the Dukes will record an album of Guy Clark covers between his upcoming LSD tour with Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam and more Copperhead shows in the fall. And, there’ll be album of original political songs on the shelves in time for the 2020 election.
Earle the performer is an entirely different animal than Earle the recording artist. It’s possible to enjoy both. But it’s nearly impossible to not to be utterly enthralled with the latter.
Grade card: Steve Earle & the Dukes at Newport Music Hall, 6/10/18 - A-
Lampedusa tour at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, 10/10/17. (photo by Carolyn Rosenfeld -- Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Chris Masterson, Eleanor Whitmore, Patty Griffin, Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, Alynda Segarra, and David Pulkingham)