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Interview With John K. Samson Of The Weakerthans – Larry Livermore

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It was 1998, about a year after I’d left Lookout Records, and I was completely burnt out on music, or so I thought. In the preceding year I’d barely bought a record or gone to a gig. I only ended up at this particular gig because some friends were playing. I didn’t know anything about the Weakerthans except that the singer had been in Propaghandi, and I might not have paid that much attention to them except that I noticed them setting up a steel guitar. I’ve always had a weakness for country music, you see, at least the old time, classic variety as played by Hank Williams, Sr. As it turned out, they didn’t even use that steel guitar until one of the last songs, and even then, only for a minute. It was a tune that those of you who are already Weakerthans fans will probably know, “None Of The Above.” “It’s like my stupid little questions,” went the singer, “the answers always sound the same.” Then the steel guitar kicked in, and I literally dissolved into tears. It was like discove

Featured Interviews Music October 16, 2009 Larry Livermore It was 1998, about a year after I’d left Lookout Records, and I was completely burnt out on music, or so I thought. In the preceding year I’d barely bought a record or gone to a gig. I only ended up at this particular gig because some friends were playing. I didn’t know anything about the Weakerthans except that the singer had been in Propaghandi, and I might not have paid that much attention to them except that I noticed them setting up a steel guitar. I’ve always had a weakness for country music, you see, at l

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