Jason Pierce turns 50 this week. To celebrate,Rock’s Backpages reprints an interview originally published in Melody Maker in August 1991, when he was overseeing the recording of his modern band’s first albumJason Pierce is the man who makes Marcel Marceau seem positively gobby. You’d get more anecdotes out of a house brick, or they told us as we left the humid fug of the capital for the crisp sunshine and sweet air of a farm on the borders of three counties.
We’re driven to a rambling farmhouse with roses climbing up the walls and poppies nodding in the garden. There are lush meadows and fields of ripening wheat alongside the road. The sun is hot and tall and there are skylarks overhead. Shit,another day in paradise.
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Source: theguardian.com