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A Conversation with Jon Langford (continued)
PM: When I was down at South By Southwest a couple of years ago, I ran into that great book of yours at the Yard Dog--Nashville Radio. Maybe you'd say a few things about that to the readers, 'cause I thought that was really amazing.
JL: I've been doing these paintings for a long time. When I first moved to Chicago, I got back into the idea of making visual art. I hadn't been doing it for a long time, and then it builds up. Ten years of doing little shows at Yard Dog and bars and museums and galleries--it had more legs than I thought it would.
PM: [laughs] Longer legs--
JL: It's been great. It's been a really good way for me to support myself as well, 'cause being a musician isn't, unless you go off touring all the time. And that can kind of kill your family life. I've got two kids, so being able to do the painting and the music and kind of juggle that has been very useful.
The book was just--a guy up in Portland, Oregon, called Steve Connell, runs a thing called Verse Chorus Press. They put out a lot of rock biography books. They put out a lot of Australian crime fiction, which I'm really into. They hadn't really done an art book before, so they decided--I basically sent them all the images I had--photographed a load of stuff. I wanted it to be more than just a bunch of pictures, so I wrote a lot of stuff for it, as well.
PM: Right.
JL: That was actually fun to write about.
PM: I'm gonna get a copy of that and review it in the ezine, because that's still available through Verse Chorus Press, right?
JL: Oh, yes. You can also get it at the Yard Dog.
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