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Final of a three-part series Kimmo Matthews A photo of Wayne Palmer when he was a drug addict. We often forget that death hangs over us at all times. It lingers in the space we cannot touch, and in the blink of an eye, in only a second it can visit us and strip us bare of the most precious blessing of all, the gift of being alive. The 55-year-old man sat on a stone close to the Kingston waterfront last Thursday and watched with deep concentration as a seagull gracefully rose from off the ground close to where a group of young boys basked in the combination of the heat from the mid-morning s...

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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...

Singer-songwriters sprout like wildflowers in Texas, but none comparable to Amigo the Devil. On sophomore full-length Born Against, Danny Kiranos puts on the masks of a series of storytellers – some introspective, some romantic, some angry, some just plain crazed. Like Ed Hamell if he'd grown up in East Austin, he presents a tense situation in "Murder at the Bingo Hall" that becomes both bizarrely groovy and darkly hilarious. The boozy march "Quiet as a Rat" drags in what sounds like a Salvation Army band to point angry fingers at God, while rollicking banjo folk tune "24K Casket" pumps ir...