It is urban folk music, stripped of modernity, and rooted in the geography of sound. David Thomas is the founder of the legendary Pere Ubu , a group that's exerted a huge influence on the way countless bands have approached music since 1975. With the two pale boys he sings and plays melodeon. A song is best the first two or three times it's played. The musicians are excited and eager and there's nothing to remember or get right.
Nothing can go wrong.
Everybody knows what a song is. It's no great mystery. The freedom of jazz in its heyday was based on the strictness of the blues structure. Rules provide freedom. After a verse comes a chorus.