The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

10: Reveal (Starbucks sampler 2004) - "Lookin' Up in Heaven"
Hot Stove Cool Music Vol. In May 2010 he played "Dangerous Boys" and "Time Flies Tomorrow" standing on the visitors' dugout at Target Field for the documentary 40 Nights of Rock & Roll. On December 24 2008 Westerberg released three songs; "Always in a Manger" "Streets of Laredo" and "D.

In recent years he has cultivated a more independent-minded approach primarily recording his music at home in his basement. Paul Westerberg (born December 31 1959) is an American musician best known as the former lead singer guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s.