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The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     June 3, 2022 I'm kind of obsessive when it comes to music. In 2018, for example, I listened to each of Bob Dylan's studio albums, including some really awful ones from the '80s. After that came the Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen binges. But my musical interests have finally taken a contemporary turn: This year, I haven't been able to stop listening to Big Thief, an astonishingly prolific indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker. Lenker has led a fascinating life. In her songs, she [often]( [references]( an older brother named Andrew, who her parents placed for adoption before she was born. When she was 4, her parents left the Christian cult she had been born into. When she was 5, a [railroad spike fell on her head](, nearly killing her. When she was 8, she wrote her first song. Lenker didn't go to high school. She got her GED when she was 16, then went to Berklee College of Music on a scholarship. That's where she first met Buck Meek, the Big Thief guitarist who she happened to encounter in a bodega on the day she moved to New York after college. The story always reminds me of how Patti Smith describes meeting Robert Mapplethorpe on her first day in New York in [Just Kids](. Lenker and Meek started playing music together and touring the country in a van. Like Smith and Mapplethorpe, they fell in love. [They got married, then divorced](. They're still fast friends, and they still make otherworldly music together, along with bandmates Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia. In 2019, Big Thief released two albums, UFOF and Two Hands. Lenker followed up with two haunting solo albums, Songs and Instrumentals, in 2020. This year, the group released a sprawling double album with a country flair, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. I saw a YouTube comment that said that these musicians perform each song like it's the last time they'll ever pick up an instrument, and it's true. Some favorites: "[Cattails](," "[Two Hands](," "[Ingydar](," and "[Red Moon](." Check out the recent performance of their song "Certainty" on [James Corden](, and enjoy the weekend. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement [Liberties Journal]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Peter Navarro, “Trump’s Looniest Economic Adviser,” Has Been Indicted]( The DOJ charged Navarro with contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with the January 6 committee. BY INAE OH [Trending] [How American influencers built a world wide web of vaccine disinformation]( BY KIERA BUTLER AND NEHA WADEKAR   [Ron DeSantis is hard at work doing bad shit]( BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG   [Why can't the Star Wars nerds imagine a world with Black people?]( BY ARIANNA COGHILL   [Imprisoned in a sauna with no exit]( BY SARAH SAX Advertisement [Liberties Journal]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [What to say if a kid asks, “What does it feel like to die?” and other questions about mass shootings]( Psychologist Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen explains how children may process death differently, and why it’s important to think of yourself as a “catcher” in difficult conversations. BY JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755