“Dear Twitter Friends,” tweeted famed auteur and arts booster David Lynch on March 8. “I heard a song I really love called ‘Black Roses’ by the band Escondido. Check it out and let me know what you think.” I can’t say whether or not Lynch’s cyber endorsement had anything to do with landing the Nashville-based, sleepy desert-country outfit an appearance on Conan the following month. Nevertheless, as Lynch’s own Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole once mused, “Coop, they say that love makes the world go ’round!”
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David Lynch Loves Escondido
