I’ve got two playlists on my iPod: gym music and spacey music for walking around and being on the T. “What Comes After the Blues” by Magnolia Electric Company figures prominently in the second list, as does the earlier Songs: Ohia album “Magnolia Electric Company.”
And Chris Clark, but more about that later.
Today I’ve been listening to Peoria Lunchbox Blues. The version with steel guitars and Scout Niblett on vocals (best name ever, by the way).
You see when you are just a kid
They think you won’t remember what they did
they think you won’t remember…But you did
Then you learned how to say “Everything you love
Tries to get away,”
Everything you love finally does.
Maybe I love the words, maybe I’m just a sucker for steel guitar. But it’s in heavy rotation now.
Secretly Ironic 