are there any Rick Moody songs that wouldn’t necessarily work as Wingdale Community Singers songs?
You have no idea. I probably rate about one out of four in terms of getting stuff past the Marcus/Grubbs editorial commission. I have, in fact, an entire solo album all done. It was supposed to come out on a new label called Dainty Rubbish, helmed entirely by the very great fiction writer Nelly Reifler. Whether it will see light of day is up for grabs, but I recorded 16 or 17 songs for that project and boiled it down to ten, I think. So there are plenty of other songs floating around. I have written lots and lots of songs over the years. There are a few invocations of religion on Spirit Duplicator — “Rancho de la Muerta” and “AWOL” in particular. Given that your essay “On Being a Christian Artist” is something I return to repeatedly, I was curious about whether you saw these songs as making a statement about religion or faith, or more as an element of the characters and settings for these particular songs? The Wingdales do not all have my interest in this topic, so the references to re
