Songs For Your Day

I was driving down Boulevard Ave. (or Boulevard Boulevard as I like to call it) and was in need a song of triumph and glory: after a year of job-searching in Atlanta I was finally gainfully employed. 

So I shuffled through my endless cd collection, creating an avalanche over my legs, and compulsively skipped through every mix, every compilation, every cd I had. It felt as if I were taking on and off outfits  and nothing seemed to fit right. Amy Winehouse? Too dark. Au revoir simone? too tired. The Pretenders? No. Sly and the Family Stone? No. Devendra Banhart? Certainly not.

When I got home I came across Fleet Foxes “Ragged Wood.” I had been saving that album for the fall, but the minute PLAY was pressed couldn’t stop listening. Soon I was running around my apartment in my barefeet dancing and jumping for joy.

The song beckons to someone who has been gone too long. The singer of Fleet Foxes is probably calling out to someone else, some long lost love, but for me in that moment I had finally found myself again. 

-Laura