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January 03, 2009

To Give to You the Word of the Old Man

I wonder how often we remember the first time we heard a song, where we were, what was going on, who put it on, and why.

I heard this song on a dirt road in Michigan last August. I asked the friend in the back seat, the most musical among us, to play something nobody else had heard.
 
I was impressed.

Ragged Wood is track 3 on Fleet Foxes.

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December 27, 2008

THE Band

Wiley and Tuna and I sung harmonies on The Weight for months in Beijing.

My sister, my uncle Zach, and I just made plans to watch The Last Waltz sometime in the next week.

And I'll be surprised if I don't always remember this song as one that I only fully discovered after it made an accidental introduction from my left-behind iPod.

I don't know when or how The Band released this version of Get Up Jake, and, since the internets aren't giving me easy answers, I'll leave it at that.

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