August 13th - Catherine Antrim's Kid

A couple of neat mini-genres coming together here. Mountain Goats demo tapes and extras, and Mountain Goats biographicals.

This is the story - apocryphal and purposefully anachronistic - of Billy The Kid, a person who is these days almost entirely fiction. There's one photo, a handful of records and accounts, a number of very real murders, and a story so powerful it has outlasted any sense of the reality. What remains is essentially as folkloric an American creation as John Bunyan, considerably less reality remaining that Johnny Appleseed, but behind it there's a younf man, orphanned and left alone to raise some kind of hell and get in some kind of trouble in a world that ceased to be wild very shortly after he touched it.

Better to remain a story, honestly.