Back in high school, I spent some time one summer as a volunteer in New Hampshire. The group I lived and worked with was small and highly earthy-crunchy (first time I ate a vegetarian diet for an extended period of time), and it was the first time in my life I grew a full beard, but all of that is another story. The point here was that we had very limited musical options available besides the radio: an 8-track tape player. Yeah, those were the days!
Anyway, we only had a handful of tapes to play and one of them was The Pousette-Dart Bard, which I had never heard of before. After weeks of hearing that tape over and over, I grew quite fond of the music. Check them out if you like. Nice mix of upbeat pop songs with some serious ones thrown in now and then. Jon Pousette-Dart is still performing and I think I should go see him play one day.
Well, the most poetic song on that tape was called “Yaicha” and it’s just beautiful. It spoke to me then, and it still does today. It’s very short, and you can listen to the whole song on Jon Pousette-Dart’s website.
And there’s more to “Yaicha” that gives it personal meaning for me. Read the rest of this entry »
