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The Great Albums

Bonus Song Thursday - The Weakerthans "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to be sad on this week's Bonus Song Thursday as Brian and Bill welcome back singer-songwriter, musician, and podcaster Brian Rothenbeck (rothenbeck.com) to talk about the Weakerthans' "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure" from their 2007 album Reunion Tour. Bill and the Brians share stories about lost pets and Rothenbeck explains why this song makes him cry. Also, in a new ongoing segment, we explore some some yacht rock!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It had something to do with the rain, leaching, loamy dirt,

0:19.0

and the way the back lane came alive

0:23.7

half moon whispered go

0:29.6

for a while I heard you

0:35.6

missing steps in the street.

0:40.4

And your anger pleading in an uncertain key singing the sound that you found for me.

0:59.6

Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.

1:00.2

I'm Brian.

1:03.8

And today with us once again is Brian Rothenbach.

1:04.2

Hello!

1:07.7

Today is bonus song Thursday.

1:10.5

If you had listened to our episode from this past Monday, you would have known

1:11.6

that we were talking about the Weaker Then's Reconstruction site, where we go into detail on that

1:17.2

whole album. But today is bonus song Thursday, where we're just going to talk about one song off

1:21.7

of a different album. But before we do that, let's just reintroduce ourselves to Brian Rothenbeck.

1:29.1

Hi.

1:30.1

Tell us about yourself.

1:31.5

Oh, allow me to introduce myself.

1:34.5

I am a folk singer and fellow podcaster from the great state of New Jersey.

1:42.3

A host of the Yarn Spinner's podcast where we have the singer-songwriters tell the stories about their songs, much like the VH1 show storytellers.

1:54.8

Exactly.

1:55.8

Yeah, except it's audio only, correct?

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