To paraphrase the Coen brothers; this ain’t no country for middle-aged musicians. Unless you’re insanely successful (and irritating) like Bono or Sting, continuing to make music into your forties like, you know, as a career, is a tough game. Most bands form in secondary school or college, record an EP or two and maybe scrape together enough cash to make a full-length album. A tour and second album might follow depending on response to the first. But, in time, most musicians end up quitting as the mundane necessity of putting food on the table kicks in. Poverty is not a hot look when you hit your late thirties, especially when compared to your contemporaries and original fans, those who went down the straight and narrow, got the profession, bought the suit, and are now furnishing their second homes with Danish-designed sofas. There are a few who keep at it though. … There’s more →