All Will Fall Away

All Will Fall Away opens with a young musician's first glorious and desperate experience of New Orleans, where he tastes "what no one said would be good for you/ the sharp burn of that shot on Bourbon Street" and where his "own songs spill out" in the "city of floods." Blues as an explicit theme returns in "Galveston Blues," recalling the storm "that shattered the island to splinters," the island that knows how to sing the blues, "Wanting to wail and cry in Mardi Gras drag/ with the keen gu...