Cotton Mather’s Robert Harrison gets brownie points for ambition. Death Of The Cool (The Star Apple Kingdom) comprises 11 of the 64 songs he’s been writing in an extended fit of creativity inspired by the I Ching, the ancient Chinese divination text—one tune per hexagram (or reading). Seriously. Harrison will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Harrison: Lines in Jimmy Buffett songs that continue to hit home with Monsieur Leffe and Madame Côtes du Rhône:
“Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum”
“Heaven on earth with an onion slice”
“Why don’t we get drunk and … ” (I won’t dignify it)
