Monday: Question of the Week

Despite the 90 degrees days and the horrid humidity, I can feel you coming Fall... I just know you're there. I have even begun busting out some of my favorite Fall tunes from bands like Guster, Keane, Wilco, The Graham Colton Band, Rufus Wainwright, Nickel Creek... music that is intrinsically "Fall music" to me for some mysterious reason. Maybe I believe that if I play it, you (Fall) will hear it and think, "Hey, I guess it's time for me to come out of hiding now." A girl can dream, can't she? Your music is emotive, raw, and palpable, and often incredibly and heartbreakingly sad, and yet achingly beautiful. I just love, love, love Fall, and am SO done with summer right now.

Am I the only nerd out there with seasonal musical enjoyments? If you are like me and have music/artists/bands/albums/songs that are particularly representative of the Fall season to you, I would love to hear about them. I have been needing a new music fix lately.

Please do share!

I kid you not when I say that Keane's album Hopes and Fears is my go-to fall cd (yes, some people do still listen to cds, I know, crazy right?). As soon as I pop that baby in the ol' cd player in my car (which I did for the first time this year the other morning on my drive to work when it was raining and just cool enough that if you didn't know any better you might have been tricked into believing it was early October rather than early August), I instantly enter Fall mode. I think Fall music, for me, is music that causes me to feel something real, whether it is good or bad or confusing or hard, it's REAL. Oh, and if it causes me to feel, even for a second, that I am back in Wenham on a crisp fall afternoon, that right there, is pure magic.

Keane, Somewhere Only We Know