Music
Richmond Fontaine is an alt.country band that is consistently recognized for Vlautin's rich lyrics. They have recorded eight albums and toured extensively in Europe, where they have a particularly strong following, as well as in Australia and the US.
Working as both a songwriter and novelist provides Vlautin with a mechanism to develop the same characters and situations in both songs and his books. The main protagonist in Northline (itself a song from Richmond Fontaine's Winnemucca album) is Allison Johnson. Allison Johnson was the title of a song on their Post to Wire album. Some of the references in his lyrics also persist across albums, such as Reno's Fitzgerald Hotel. Mentioned on Post to Wire, it became the title of the next album, The Fitzgerald.
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“Poetry
Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven and its hymns....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the “moral significance of existence.” But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)