Thursday, October 22, 2009

The old college try.

I'm spending the extended weekend in my Missouri college town, catching up with dear friends and remember what the rest of the country looks like in autumn. [See below for its beauty.]

Tonight we visited the Blue Note to catch Pete Yorn on his current tour.


His album musicforthemorningafter was the soundtrack to my senior year of high school. His new beats set the tone for my Brooklyn days and Manhattan nights. I think he's wonderful.

Yorn's is good American music: music created with guitars and drums and pianos. Music created for dancing and ruminating on fast-moving trains. Music for interstates. Music for heartbreak. They make me wish for a fire escape and a thick wool sweater and a wood-burning stove. These are epic songs for epic youth in an epic country.

Pete puts on a good show, too.

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