A Songstories Prompt

“I Don’t Want to be Sad Again”

Life with Camera Obscura

Terry Barr
Songstories
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4 min readOct 8, 2021

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Photo by John Fowler on Unsplash

Maybe ten years ago, well after the album kicked out in 2009, my friend Les introduced me to Camera Obscura, particularly the title song of that album, “My Maudlin Career.” He surely listed a few reasons why I needed to hear it, but time and distance fade and fuzz and get all distorted, so forgive me, man, I…

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Terry Barr
Songstories

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.