We’re gettin’ older and older and older and older. Indeed, whenever I’m going home, I know that he’s gone. Our family dog, whose fur was turning silver at the start of the pandemic, passed on towards the end of it. Because one day, I’ll be going to visit home and it won’t all be the same. “Huckleberry Love” is a reflection on the impermanence of life. Now I’m always thinking I could love them more. I felt bad for how little we’d connected while I had been away at school. Indeed I realized it upon returning home. Whether I realize it or not, I’m always thinking of them. Your close friends, family, your loved ones. “Wolf Song” has to be my enduring favorite from the album. It’s one of the few albums I’ve ever laughed (and cried) out loud because of. I digested it then with a mind empty of all else during the meditative state of runner’s high. “By and By” was almost always playing on those runs. I spent a lot of time running over those many months. If I were to write about the way everything changed, this paragraph would be far too long. My dog’s fur more gray, my hometowns infrastructure more developed. My brother, my sister were more adult than I had kept the pictures of them in my mind. How much I had change since I left to go to school and see the world. I’d realized how much they had aged since I left. Moving back in with my family and spending a ton of time together unlike we had in years brought a lot to the surface. I think the common thread that runs through each interpretation I read is that “By and By” is most certainly at least about one thing - the evolution of relationships. I’ve seen people interpret the album in many ways as they took it in and adapted it to their personal experiences - I’d wager that alone is the mark of a great record, that it can be applied to your own life as well as it applies to those of the artists. Personally, I left college and moved back in with my parents until it all blew over. This event in human history pushed almost everyone back inside - whether literally in their homes or more abstractly in their minds. When “By and By” was released in 2019, the world was on the brink of a historical event which I need not name you’ve already heard it described so many ways that there’s no descriptors I could use which haven’t been totally exhausted. My personal favorite lesser known song is a hopeful tune titled “I Keep Going.” “26” and “Down the River” deserve a mention too. Of course, for bigger fans, you’ll feel that this quick synopsis leaves out dozens of other tracks that do all that and more. “Autumn Leaves” and “Going to the Country” exemplified the boy’s ability to pick up the pace, while “Strawberries” and “Misty” made it known just how aptly they could convey the universal feelings of love and loss. Their older stuff wasn’t of any lesser quality either. Tracks like “Iffy,” So Long, Honey,” Vagabond” and “All the Debts I Owe” fit the bill for lovers of the genre while serving up a soulful, homemade spice unlike any other one could ever find. When I first came across Caamp, their album of the same name seemed to concurrently fit right in and stand out amongst the folk crowd. From the Lumineers to Gregory Alan Isakov, all the way back to some good ‘ole Bob Dylan, I’ve long had an affinity for open chords and capos coupled with finger picking and poetic narratives. Rap, R&B, alternative, indie - but nothing quite strikes the same cord in my heart that folk does. Like many of us, I listen to a lot of different music. Specifically, I want to hear about what it means to you. on both days - featuring different lineups that had not been announced by press time - on the Stuart’s Opera House YouTube channel.Although “By and By” will hardly leave my daily rotation, I wanted to take a look back at the record while it lives it’s last couple months as the band’s latest LP. Meier will join his bandmates, banjo player Evan Westfall and bassist Matt Vinson, as the headlining act of a special, virtual edition of the Nelsonville Music Festival on Friday and Saturday. “In many cases, humans are what’s wrong and we need to be doing more.” “I’ve been feeling a buildup of rage, really, just for the environmental pains that humans have caused increasingly and especially in this latest (presidential) administration - repealing (environmental policies),” said singer/guitarist Taylor Meier, 26, of the Old North. The group’s newest single, “Fall, Fall, Fall,” released last week, is in part a plea for others to act against climate change and other threats to nature before it’s too late. It should come as no surprise, then, that the Columbus trio is passionate about the environment. It has been about four years since Caamp broke through to national acclaim with a song about local life.įrom there, the folk band has built its brand with lyrics about emerald green oceans, shooting stars and long trips.
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