:: towards september ::

my current favorite band is this little I suppose indie group called rogue valley.

they have the best feel -- it's like autumn, condensed into acoustic guitar and layered vocals. I seriously can't get enough of them.

I've gone through different favorite songs so far (blackberry moon, rockaway, rutting moon) but right now I think it's mountain laurels.

from the western edge of highway one
to the east of appalachia
I got my ticket baby here I come

following the crows
and colors
towards september... 

it's a beautiful, sad, colored-leaf song about loving but the ever-present reality of death.

when I lay these flowers
on this grave
do the math to find the final age
oh, I think of all the different ways

darling, don't be 
long in waiting
...the darkness
won't be long
in taking
you

and the music video is so reminiscent of our virginia road trips when I was younger that it almost made me cry. this is a beautiful song for autumn, so if you're ready for summer to end and to follow those crows and colors.....