You know, some songs are evocative of happy times, and some songs bring you right back to bad, bad times in your life - but that doesn’t make the songs themselves bad, right?  I’d completely forgotten about this one until tonight, and it’s brought a lot of ugliness from early 2004 back into my life.  It starts with driving back and forth to Houston weekly to see my husband who was working out of town at the time (hey, just like now!) but runs into extreme familial explosions (yet to be fully resolved) leading up to my wedding.  Yet somehow, I’m happy to rediscover the tune - it pays occasionally to be reminded of what made you, you.

Just some melodrama for a late Saturday night.

I have to thank vinylwino (http://vinylwino.blogspot.com/) for putting this song on her Christmas mix last year.  With the hubby out of town, I’ve been listening to it a lot.

No, not the part about new boys to spoon!

Thanks to Herman Dune - and the angels, of course.

Want something fun for the almost-weekend?  I know you do!

I’ve been craving this song and am so glad the CD comes out for realz on the 6th of October.

marjoree:

“Osaka In The Rain,” Matt the Electrician

Nice, rainy day song. From his new CD, Animal Boy.

Matt came on our show a few months ago (w/ Scrappy Jud Newcomb) & performed the title track — it was wonderful & you can listen to it here if you like. The cool thing about that particular morning — the young lady singing backup was late & didn’t arrive until near the middle of the song. I hustled her into the studio & put her in front of a microphone & since no one else except Matt, Scrappy or I knew who she was, everyone else thought that just some random chick had come into the studio & was managing to harmonize perfectly. Okay, so maybe you had to be there. But listen carefully & you’ll notice that it’s just Scrappy singing harmony in the first chorus — the lovely lady voice chimes in during the 2nd chorus.