Indigo Girls: Staring Down the Brilliant Dream
Posted by Troy | Filed under Music
Remember music in the pre-internet world?
A big folder of CDs in the car with a tape adapter and your Discman.
and for those of us outside of any kind of metropolis our musical exposure was limited to what was available on the radio (top 40, oldies, country, CCM) and what was on Mtv (they did actually play music back then).
Which was tough for a kid like me who had a hunger for something outside the mainstream. (Praise the Lord for Nirvana).
So when I left home for college, my entire music library was compiled of Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Mazzy Star, Sugar, The Cranberries along with a little Elvis Presley and for some reason I liked Harry Connick Jr. (I can’t remember why)
I was lucky enough to have some fringe tunes in my library (if not physical, at least in my head) like Hum (I was obsessed with them) and Dinosaur Jr…. but that exposure was mostly limited to one friend’s handful of CDs that he’d commandeered from someone else.
So when I met my hippie-ish wife in 1996 she’d ask me regularly if I liked this or that artist and didn’t I just love “Box of Rain?”
Honestly, I didn’t even know much at all about the Dead or Bob Dylan or The Smiths or Joni Mitchell or Led Zeppelin or The Cure or just about anything else she was into.
When she asked me about her favorite band, The Indigo Girls, I had never even heard of them, but was quite certain that I didn’t like them.
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