Tuesday, March 18,
2025
Time: 4:28
Song: Malibu
Artist: Mumford & Sons
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the “Songs of 2025” playlist I’ve started in
Spotify.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1ATQ3x83vDSmiSY8PvHrXJ?si=26310f6dd00d4ddf
In 2012, Mumford & Sons were a fast-rising band, and
they liked to pick random spots to have shows, mostly towns that usually wouldn’t
get a big band. That’s how they ended up at the Petunia Festival in Dixon, IL,
a mere twenty-three minutes from my front door.
I didn’t go.
In fact, I am pretty sure I worked that night at the
newspaper. In the weeks leading up to the concert, I remember admitting to one co-worker
who was hipper to the current scene that I didn’t even know who Mumford &
Sons were. Mind you, I was only 29 in 2012. Not old. Just completely out of
touch.
Shortly thereafter, I started to familiarize myself with
Mumford & Sons and found that I generally liked their music. They were very
much at the forefront of the “Americana” sound that became popular in the
2010s.
Once I left the newspaper, I suddenly had more time and my
interest in music beyond that I had been listening to since I was a kid grew.
Heck, the change of job is probably why I am writing this blog now.
I’ve branched out to have the Facebook Playlist group. I
have bought well over a thousand vinyl records. Jodi and I have tentatively
planned to attend three concerts in the coming months: Metallica in Nashville,
Old Crow Medicine Show at the Grand Ole Opry, and Jason Isbell in Rockford.
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