“Those songs are seared into me. I mean, I start crying when the movie now,” John Darnielle says as he settles onto his couch, having just sung a line from “Sunrise, Sunset.” The Mountain Goats frontman, known for his richly detailed songwriting (as found on the band’s latest album, , released on Merge in August) and deeply human not-quite-horror novels, was five years old when at the movie theater without him. A devastated young Darnielle was appeased with a vinyl recording of the musical, which he became obsessed with.
John Darnielle of THE MOUNTAIN GOATS on Fiddler on the Roof (1971, directed by Norman Jewison)
Nov 18, 2022
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