Personal confession time: I get discs in the mail and I try to listen to 'em all, but sometimes it just seems like work, you know? It is—in fact, it's my job. Considering all the time I've spent on the wrong sides of both shovels and bedpans, I know better than complain about my current gig.
When The Never-Ending Waltz ended up in my mailbox, I didn't exactly move it to the top of my to-play pile. Quite the opposite. It kept winding up somewhere in the "someday" stack, where I finally grabbed…
Stuart Stevens found out—and his story is fascinating.
I left Autumn in the kitchen with the double-sided tape. I went back into the living room, stopped the Sexsmith album, and replaced it with Christian's mix CD. I sat down on my orange couch, wrapped my shivering bones in a warm wool blanket, and skipped to track 6, Sexsmith's delicate "Dandelion Wine."
Now that I was finally paying attention, I noticed immediately that the song sounded faster — even a little more rocking — than I'd remembered. This was unusual. I thought I knew this song fairly well. Was the version on Christian's CD-R different from…
"'I didn't just marry a beautiful woman,' he says, 'I married a record collection.'"