I sat down with Buick Audra and Jerry Roe from Friendship Commanders in the sunny kitchen of their Nashville home. I first saw Friendship Commanders when our bands played together earlier this summer. I have been a devoted fan ever since. Both Buick and Jerry survived difficult, unusual childhoods and found each other as adults. Together they have created an artistic and romantic partnership of mutual trust and protection. We talked about surviving and thriving, recording with Steve Albini, the travails of touring, and life on the road as a couple.

You can hear Friendship Commanders and see a list of their tour dates here:

https://friendshipcommanders.bandcamp.com/

You can read the Elizabeth Bishop poem, ‘One Art’, which Buick referenced in the question about loss, here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art