johndarnielle:(via The Mountain Goats “The Legend of Chavo...

johndarnielle:

(via The Mountain Goats “The Legend of Chavo Guerrero” (Official Music Video) - YouTube)

Here is a thing that happened in my life: I was sitting around the kitchen table with a guitar and my two-year-old son a year or so ago, and I found this riff I liked, and I wrote some words to go with it, but I couldn’t sing the verses over the riff because the words fell into these palm-mute pockets, so I demo’d the progression over a shaker effect which I used as a metronome/click track,...