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	Out of the past
	April 30th, 2020
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	I adored this band when I was a teen. They were local and played
	mostly in bookstores and small venues or the occasional folk
	festival. I would see them as much as possible, listened to their
	music around the clock... you get it.

	Well, 20+ years later, the keyboardist and main songwriter was
	stuck at home due to covid-19. He sat at his piano and started
	playing a song that he'd forgotten all about. It was from the time
	leading up to their second indy album but the feel wasn't right
	for that collection. Much later on he thought he'd lost all traces
	of it: gone from memory and never recorded. Here we was, just
	barely remembering the tune.

	Then serendipity struck. Today he dusted off an old, ancient iPod
	and plugged it in. Amazingly it still worked. He put it on shuffle
	with his collection of thousands of songs when what should start
	coming through his speakers but the very mystery song he'd lost.

	Sometime in the mid-nineties he had put together a demo track with
	just him and the lead singer. One take, no practice. It had been
	mis-labeled as a different track ("More to This") and tossed into
	a collection and forgotten.

	Today it speaks across time not just to him, but to all of us who
	loved that music and the band, and to everyone who spends the time
	to listen. I can't even put into words how much it means to me.

	Story to Tell (Soundcloud)