Day 9: January 9: Montana
"Tectonic creation, erosion, mutation; somethin' to pleasure God's eye."
This new album is a little hit and miss for me, but this one really hits. Pretty chord progressions, soothing vocals. James says in a Stereogum interview that if this song was a painting, it would be a landscape painting. It's descriptive and beautiful. Apparently he had the chords determined for about 15 years before he ever put lyrics to it. He had isolated himself in a friend's place in Montana to do some writing and the song became to be about where he was while writing it.
So when I started to think about another Montana song to pair with this one, my first thought was Jimmy Buffett. Come Monday came to mind- but it turns out he has several- Miss You So Badly, Livingston Saturday Night, Ringling Ringling. I was leaning toward the last of those until I thought of this beautiful Nanci Griffith tune,
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