Wow! Frances told me that going to Music Midtown was worth it, just for this band. That didn't happen and today as I was taking a study break by listening to RadioFreeVirgin online, I heard songs of this band come on. I am stunned and I am amazed by the simple lyrical capacity of these songs.

Everyone should listen to Raining in Baltimore which goes:

There's things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard And I wish it was a small world Because I'm lonely for the big towns I'd like to hear a little guitar I think it's time to put the top down I need a phone call I need a raincoat

And everyone should listen to Counting Crows: A Long December, a simple and beautiful song that ends "It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should"

The last time I heard such consistently good songs is when I heard Tracy Chapman's New Begining fill up a far away room in which a woman is now sleeping, that was already full of unsaid emotions.

Rock on!