Sitting on a desolate prairie, he gifts us a bottle of liquor that has remained unchanged since the first pioneer drew the first song from the frontier. Unsustainable at the first sip, an essential comfort as we approach the bottom, regret at the end of the bitter chalice. "Last of Country Gentlemen" is one of the most honest and sincere works ever created, hieratic and human, incredibly urgent in its silences and its sparse, vulnerable words. After this, little else remains standing.
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