😥Sad news from Chris Robinson, his wife confirms a great sadness.

😥Sad news from Chris Robinson, his wife confirms a great sadness.
Toward the end of my conversation with Chris Robinson, we talked about his reading habits. In my almost 200 interviews for this site, I've learned that songwriters are voracious readers. But I was not prepared for the onslaught of titles that Robinson threw at me. I have a Ph.D. in English Literature and consider myself pretty well read, but not compared to Robinson. He reads so much that I don't know where the man finds time to write. And while most songwriters stick to a genre or two, Robinson sticks to nothing. He wants to be exposed to everything. So he reads some Beat poets, then some Baudelaire. He'll move to Gene Wolfe then Knut Hamsun. Then it might be time for H.P. Lovecraft and Arthur Machen, moving on after that to Israel Regardi's The Golden Dawn or The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon, then some non-fiction by Mary Beard. His current favorite is Brian Calling. “You can’t be an adept lyricist without having knowledge of other people’s writing,” Robinson told me.
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