I’ve lived in three different U.S. states and I’ve felt attached to each of them in different ways. While I currently call North Carolina home, my first thirty one years on this planet (to they day, in fact) were spent in Wisconsin, and part of the proof that America’s Dairyland still has a unique hold on me is that nothing piques my curiosity about a band like finding out that’s the place they’re from. This is true of current artists, but it’s even more pronounced when it’s a band from the past, a band I feel I should have heard … Continue reading One for Friday: The Baroques, “Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon”

I don’t know why I love you Your face is a foreign food Sometimes I just lock onto one piece of a song, usually a particularly nice turn of phrase in a set of lyrics, and that stands paramount in my mind as the reason why I like this song. I can get into everything else–the strident quality of the music, the guitar sound that’s both smooth and jagged, even what the song meant to me at the particular time it was released–but I’ll always come back to whatever that little bit that most captures me, most inspires me. When … Continue reading One for Friday: The House of Love, “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”