Damien Jurado performing "The Horizon Just Laughed" at The Rabbit Box May 15 - May 17!“ The Horizon Just Laughed is stuffed with so many people and places it’s more like teleportation than travel. In less than forty minutes, we’re whisked through Nebraska, Maine, Arizona, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, and Jurado’s home state of Washington, with stops in Seattle, Wenatchee, and Mount Rainier. The songs are addressed, often in epistolary form and always confidingly, to female interlocutors with names like Mary, Lucy, Vera, Alice, Mali H., Cindy Lee, Lou-Jean, and Florence-Jean. The dramatis personae include novelist Thomas Wolfe, inventor Garrett Morgan, sitcom actor Marvin Kaplan, easy-listening bandleaders Percy Faith and Ray Conniff, Peanuts creator Charles Schultz, that <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaQFguerFc">news anchor who was held hostage on-air</a>, the guy who wrote <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjiWS__Mp0">“Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,”</a> the angel Moroni, Lucifer, and God.” - Brian Howe/Spin Magazine