The "Dead Man's Cake" blogs, issue #5.
The album “ Dead Man’s Cake ” (2012, by David Barrows) is my autobiographical narrative consisting of 11 songs which generally proceed chronologically from my childhood to the present day. The first half of the record is about the story of my parents, my Mom’s suicide and how it affected me. Most of the second half of the record is about how I went on to live my life afterwards. Track 2: Hippies On The Ranch Hippies On The Ranch refers to one of those fateful decisions, around 1966 or 1967, where my parents met a fellow writer at a party in L.A., who happened to be selling his ranch in Cuba, New Mexico. They were heady from their success of having sold a screenplay for fifty thousand dollars, which was a lot of money in those days. My understanding is, they thought they could live part time in L.A., and live part time on the ranch, to draw inspiration for writing western screenplays, by actually living in the southwest. The ranch was...