It's all songs considered from NPO Music. I'm Bob Boyland. It's been about six years since the

band Granddaddy put out their final album. It were an NPO Music favorite when we launched in 2007

and now the Modesto California Band is releasing a collection of B-Sides and Rarities called

Someday, XS Baggage. And it felt so good to hear their music again. Jason Lidel will take us

to the song The Town Where I'm Living Now. It's actually odd for me to remember when and how I

wrote a song but I do remember making this one. My dad, my stepmom, lived in this town called Sonora

and the foothills of California and I was going up to visit and there were super windy roads.

I remember being really annoyed because I was getting all these great ideas and all these great

visuals and I had to keep pulling over because it required writing a lot of elaborate colorful lyrics.

So yeah, eventually I got through it but this is also around the time that I too were I got more

into the idea of the campfire test for my songs where it's really simple music and visual lyrics

that you could play at a campfire and they would still work and they wouldn't be so reliant on

production and trickery and stuff like that.

And the town where I'm living now, wetting greens, reek and the

record to hell by the side. The campfire was campfire and many smiles in the waters, the worst

moments, bright BMX bikes every now and then stopping to cry on the lawn.

And the trees have turned black and they're full of insane birds that can't remember

the fights by night in the graveyard, the multi car pile ups by day.

And the freight train to railed and sank in the lake like a lobster bubbles away.

and

when you get here, welcome to this town sign that scares little kids with its goals and it's

a core and when you leave here, get the hell outside as well kept and pretty with floral decor.

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