The immediate impetus for creating this blog was the April 20 release of True Love Cast Out All Evil, Roky Erickson's first studio album in over fifteen years. I have been trying to put my thoughts on it into words for weeks since, but with little luck thus far. My response to it has been varied, layered as the disc is with a complexity of means and expression. I will almost certainly get into all that over time, but the result of all these ruminations has been to return me to a project I have been mulling over for years, that of exploring in detail the poetic achievements of Roky Erickson. I have never been able to do so in any extended, systematic way; the blog format, however, provides a means to put thing down and out there as they come along. Perhaps in the future I can gather it all up into a more meaningful form, but for now, this will afford me the opportunity to muse as I choose.

As a preliminary statement on how I approach Erickson's work, here is a post from my other, pretty much moribund at this point, blog. This will no doubt appear again later on in a more expanded form in the course of these investigations.