WORKING MAN’S BLUES
There’s a new furrowed-brow earnestness now emerging in American rock ’n’ roll, a grainy neorealism that depicts workaday lives in ways that were once the exclusive province of country music, a neorealism which is attempting to chart the widening gap between what we’d hoped for (romantically, socially, economically) and what we’re currently experiencing.
April 1, 1983