corner. When I stopped drinking, I
went out on the road. It was the only
thing I could think of doing."
The title track of Hay's newest
album Next Year People examines others
who struggle through adversity, banking upon the inevitability that life will
get better. It applies to Depression-era
farmers in the photo on the album's artwork, and might reflect in a smaller
way upon Hay's own journey. Hay was
inspired by Ken Burns' 2012 PBS documentary The Dust Bowl.
choly, which is not particularly
healthy," says Hay with an honest
laugh. "You have to be careful.”
Hay wrote the song as a character
sketch with frequent collaborator
Michael Georgiades. "The guy in the
song didn't have anything to do with
us necessarily, but we knew exactly
wh