There’s a photo of my brother and I in Blooming Grove, Texas.We’re standing in front of a phone booth for no reason, really. I think we were leaving a souvenir and coffee shop type place. I’m wearing my dad’s Blooming Grove trucker hat. What I remember about Blooming Grove is that it was…

Otto Hauser of Vetiver

Photo by Jersey Walz

Drummer and composer Otto Hauser has worked with folk legends Vashti Bunyan, Mike Heron (the Incredible String Band), Michael Hurley and Bert Jansch; Pat Sansone (Wilco); and many contemporary indie and folk acts including Devendra Banhart,…

In The Disappointment Artist, Jonathan Lethem says that he learned to think by watching his father paint.

I learned about love by listening to my mother sing along with “The Art Teacher” by Rufus Wainwright.

My mother used to play the song at full volume at our little house in the…