Romeo and Juliet, by Indigo Girls.
This song was an Indigo Girls song for me long, long before I found out it was a Dire Straits song, and I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to the original on purpose, so this is just what it is.
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I never feel like I’m straining when I’m rehearsing. Is it because I sing louder when I record? I dunno. 265 songs in, 100 to go, and I should probably, like, be improving my singing along the way here, like maybe watch a YouTube video about how to sing or something?
Closer To Fine, by Indigo Girls.
If you didn’t go through an Indigo Girls phase in high school in the 1990s, you knew someone who did. (And I’m wrong to call it a phase — they’re still making music and people are still listening.)
But… their first couple of albums were Very Important to people who were Very Important to me, and this song of course sticks in my psyche and memory more than the others, but don’t sleep on Galileo, Kid Fears, or of course their Romeo and Juliet cover, not ever.
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I couldn’t quite get the chorus right, and my lack of harmony skills continues to bite me. Sometimes when I sing the lead vocal, I think I’m probably singing the harmony part, and then I go to record a second vocal and end up just doubling it.
Also, this is probably not the first time someone sang an Indigo Girls song while wearing an American Outlaws t-shirt.