Image: ’ voice, a dry rasp, is a perfect complement to these dusty tales. Quite frankly, it’s a recipe that Lucero could stand to make use of a little more often. Here, Nichols straps on an acoustic guitar for rootsy arrangements that feature flourishes of pedal steel, accordion, or piano. It’s a surprisingly nimble disc, given that Lucero usually opts for a bludgeoning guitar assault. His recent solo EP, The Last Pale Light in the West (alluding to the book’s subtitle, Or the Evening Redness in the West), offers seven songs based on the book, looking at the backstories of several characters, and even giving the Judge his typically charismatic say. Still, Blood Meridian is an exhilarating and visceral read, thanks to the beauty of McCarthy’s unadorned style and vivid characters like Judge Holden.īen Nichols (the lead singer of indie/alt-country band Lucero) has obviously caught the Blood Meridian bug. And by and large, it certainly isn’t conscience that leads to the group’s downfall, but rather the accumulating consequences of their actions.
BLOOD MERIDIAN FULL
The Glanton Gang is full of stories, but the group’s willing slide into depravity isn’t necessarily answered by any of the tales told around their campfires.
The teenaged Kid is a cipher, seemingly content to be cast from event to event by whatever evil winds blow the Glanton Gang along, and whatever glimmers of conscience he suffers are slow in coming. The overriding question of “What makes a person participate in such inhumanity?” isn’t helped by the book’s protagonist, the Kid. Image: Blood Meridian can be a daunting book, even if you’re able to withstand a chain of events where not even animals or children are safe. Reportedly, Blood Meridian will also be turned into a film, raising inevitable questions among the book’s fans: “How on God’s green Earth could you ever pull off such an unrelenting depiction of the Gates of Hell opening straight into men’s hearts? Who could possibly play Judge Holden, a hairless seven-foot-tall giant whose formidable intelligence is matched only by his vile desires as a murderous pedophile?”īook: Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West On the other hand, Blood Meridian takes its own toll, its horrors coming at you in wave after unrelenting wave even as they’re told in language that ranges from austere to florid, but always beautiful. On the one hand, McCarthy’s fictionalized portrayal of the scalp-hunting Glanton Gang is certainly more action-packed, teeming with mid-1800s massacres and atrocities on the US-Mexico border. For those people, Blood Meridian may or may not be worth recommending.
BLOOD MERIDIAN MOVIE
The movie adaptation of The Road will soon bring a fresh round of attention to Cormac McCarthy’s body of work, and many will find his post-apocalyptic vision too much of a grim, ashen slog.
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