Standard Amarillo

 A "Standard" blues.

It's an extended mix with diegetic elements (in the "world" of scene), as if you were perhaps inside the gas station in earshot of the street, with 2 radios playing, one an excerpt from The Jean Shepherd Show in 1963, and the same track looped back in, with a binaural recording of street sounds.

The Station 2015

More Amarillo

 

Part of the mythology of the United States is its highway system built postwar and one of the more popular roadways as we know is Route 66, one of the main thoroughfares to the west coast.

There's this idea of heading west that I've come across in various books as a metaphor for moving towards the future. It's interesting that it is more of a universal and not unique to the United States.

One of the images that I picked for the album was taken on Route 66 while the artist was heading west from Oklahoma to California. The photo is in effect a milestone from that point in his life where he steps out of the car takes a picture of this and then years later inspires paintings just as iconic.

What I'm trying to depict in this is that there's a radio playing in the car. I want to make it both diegetic and non-diegetic in the world of the photograph. 

April 9, 2021