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“Entertainment, even art, so often hinge on youthful enthusiasm, on the way young people tell us they’re experiencing the world. There’s newness and vigor there, we naturally tell ourselves. But that’s not the only way to view a life. Templeton—who actually forgets he’s in his mid-60s so often he apologizes for it—has had a strange six decades on this earth, his highs and lows so extreme that each successive revelation feels jolting. But he doesn’t regret any of it or that took him so long to make Diner of Doubt. His life and all his strange times are funneled into these songs and the hundreds he is now sorting through for his next records. (Plural intended). That old compulsion to write, he says, has still not faded. He is ready for what’s next. With it, the curtain finally opens on a remarkable pop songsmith, no matter how late the arrival.”
