Minneapoliscast

There are still echoes of the Golden Age of country to be found here and there. Loretta Lynn’s been making some noise with Jack White recently, for one thing, and Merle Haggard will occasionally put out an album on a punk label. Closer to home, Minneapolis’ Dana Thompson has released a new album, Ox, that revisits the old-timey sensibilities in a way that’s both refreshing and reassuring.

–Keith Pille , Pulse

Dana Thompson stopped by earlier this month. We talked about music, writing, parenthood and that tricky question of defining success.

There are just so many creative people in the world that do music or paint or write books or whatever–produce. And I really learned when I was in Austin, TX–because there are so many artists down there–that you either are or you aren’t.

And if you are, you’re a lifer. And if you’re able to do it at all, that’s a success.

–Dana Thompson on the issue of success.

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