After seeing The Mountain Goats a couple weeks ago, I wrote about how John Darnielle will be out of commission for a while with some unidentified illness. While buying The Sunset Tree at Crooked Beat today, the owner said that he heard that the condition Darnielle is afflicted with is tinnitus. This may not seem very serious, but he pointed out that Mission From Burma was out of commission for 20 years because one of the members had tinnitus. I guess if you're John Darnielle and you live for your music (and death metal), not being able to do it anymore is a huge blow, not to mention the fact that this is how he makes his living. But he could draw encouragement from a New York Times article on new treatments for tinnitus that came out a week after the show.
A Google search for john darnielle tinnitus doesn't yield any info, making this either inside info or a totally spurious rumor.
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