My wife and I just started building our summer soundtrack. It’s a collection of songs that we’ll listen to during adventures this summer. Like musical envelopes, we’ll hide our memories in them from the warm months of 2011. Years later, when we hear them on the radio we’ll remember the fourth of July in Blowing Rock, or going on a river walk in Franklin Tennessee.
The first song we’re putting on it this year is Brett Dennen’s “Sydney (I’ll Come Running.)” It’s impossibly happy and includes one of the best descriptions I’ve ever heard of what it feels like to play a show as a musician. He says, “We were in the basement, just giving our blood on stage, and pretending we were famous.” (The video is after the jump)
The second song is Mat Kearney’s “Hey Mama.” Here’s the song. (It takes 12 seconds to start.)
What song captures summer for you?
What song would you put on your summer soundtrack?
