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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) |