What Light, by Wilco.
Believe it or not, it’s been a couple months between Wilco songs? Seems unlikely, I know, but according to my (spreadsheet) records, it seems true.
This song is one I’ve probably sung in exactly two places: This basement, and the car. Well, maybe a variety of cars, since I guess this dates back to our Honda Civic days in Santa Cruz? Before that car — the “loss leader” at the used car sale in the mall parking lots, the car that let them say “as low as $4,700” although that seems steep even now for a 6-year-old Civic DX two-door with no air conditioning, not that we needed any in Santa Cruz — anyway, yes, before that car, we took the bus and/or bicycled where we needed to go.
The Honda, weirdly though, had a six CD changer, in the trunk. This meant investing in a spindle of blank CDs and a box of slim jewel boxes which we still have not used up, some 17 years after buying the car. Sky Blue Sky might’ve been one I bought early on, anyway, and never pirated on a torrent or anything, because we seem to own a copy on CD.
Also this song is borderline Sesame Street material, and that just makes me love it more. (Oh, and there’s nothing more confusing to me than an “A#” in the chords where a “Bb” would be quicker for my brain to process.)