Stephen Deusner

Stephen Deusner is a music journalist who writes for Pitchfork, Uncut, Stereogum, the Bluegrass Situation and No Depression, among other print and online publications. In addition to writing long-form liner notes for recent reissues by Pylon and the Glands, he will publish his first book, “Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers,” in September 2021.

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Paradise Is Not Lost

In the opening shots of the documentary “Paradise Is There,” Natalie Merchant gives only a vague reason for re-recording “Tigerlily,’ her 1995 solo debut, 20 years later. “I think we all have some experience in our lives that we wish we could relive,” she says. “We think if we could retrace our steps and replay the events, the outcome would be different.”

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A New Vantage Point on a Storied Career

Paul Simon was in his early 30s when he wrote “Kodachrome,” a song about the pangs of remembering, and he was in his early 70s when he opened a show with it in 2012 at Hyde Park in London.