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Rhett Miller bums a ride in the back of a pickup and receives the signs of his past and future in the video for “Where the Road Goes,” the Old 97’s’ new song that celebrates the band’s more than 30 years of longevity.

While Miller sings about various highs and lows of life and career (“from the bottom of a bottle to the palazzo/who knows where the road goes”), he sees the number 97 everywhere — on a highway sign, above a gas station — and also a ramshackle marquee announcing American Primitive,...

I’m back! And so is Donn Davison. The world is doomed! Or saved; perhaps both. Well, if someone’s gonna do the dooming, it might as well be me, because I feel a certain salvation upon watching the incredible journey that is Blood Beast of Monster Mountain.

We get a country song that introduces us to The Legend of McCullough’s Mountain (which is also another alternate title). Apparently, as far back as the 1850s, local yokels have been seeing the mysterious creature that mortal men call Bigfoot. Donn Davison and a dumpy, clumsy copy boy named Bistoink Dooly (no joke) are on the case—but not in the same continuity. You’ve gotta understand the magic of the Donn Davison recut; we’ll explain later. For now all you need to know is that Donn does the documentary fact-checking on everything and interviews witnesses; Bistoink, ever the “loveable” clown,...