Danny Kiranos Finds Moral Ground in the Murder Folk of Amigo the Devil
How often do you think about death? Call it what it is, a psychologically terroristic question with which to commence an interview, but Danny Kiranos, aka Amigo the Devil, appears completely unfazed. Murder and mortality remain foundational muses to the emotionally visceral folksinger. "I relate it to everything," he concedes, sinking into a patio chair on the second story deck of his house overlooking a cedar forest in outer Travis County. "I think about my youth and say, 'How did we not die that night?' When I'm unhappy, I ask myself, 'If I were to die right now, would I be unfulfilled an...