I Am Trying To Break Your Heart by Wilco.
I had a hard time picking a song today. I kept trying to go back to things I know well, but kept getting frustrated trying to finish before dinner or bedtime, and in the end I recorded after the kids were done for the night, and layered on all these other fun things in my dark office up too late.
I heard the story of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot before I got into Wilco. But I knew the Uncle Tupelo records from long before that. And then I heard some live recordings, and Heavy Metal Drummer was my gateway.
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart holds a special space, though maybe not as emotional a space as the whole Sky Blue Sky album, but still.
Oh, and when I do a silly minor middle-of-Via-Chicago thing with the drums, that’s because the dog scratched at the office door and I had to let her in. (She didn’t come in. It wasn’t time for work.)
Still trying to learn how to get the keyboard timing right with the software instruments.
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