David Lynch, Girls and Guitars

David Lynch succumbed to emphysema in January. What was his contribution to Americana music?

I suggest that 1977's Eraserhead, David Lynch's first movie, was not only his best work, but the most frightening film ever made. I watched it on DVD on a portable TV on my own, in the dark, and I almost died of fright. In a cinema it must be even more powerful.

My interest in The Lynch revived when the Twin Peaks revival series came out in 2017. We grad…