great stuff! I'm hanging by a thread to read the last section!!
The only bits that gave me a little pause was the reference to a Beach Boys sound on one of Chris' songs.... I find LB can sometimes impose his own sound on stuff rather than honor the underlying origins, and her blues edge on some stuff gets lost (it sounds like the song they were talking about was actually his and she added lyrics to it which is fine....but thinking of her stuff more generally).
Oh and as for his lyrics on Tusk being obscure and hard to know what they were about , that gave me a chuckle. So many of them were full-on anger at Stevie ("you're here because I say so", "what makes you think I'm the one who will love you forever?" "you can love me baby but you can't walk out" etc etc etc). Maybe the title song, but.....
Can.not.wait. for this album to come out. And I hope they play here coz I'm there regardless of price.