Wakin On A Pretty Day - Kurt Vile
from the album Wakin On A Pretty Daze (2013) So, I'm driving thru somewhere deep in Appalacia, and wake up in a 1950's roadside motel. I step out into a gloomy, spring morning, walk my dog down a wet gravel road, listen to the birds chatter, check out the dark clouds rolling across the sky, return to the room, have a smoke, skip the shower, brush my teeth, load up the car, and hit the road. Three and a half hours to go. I pop in the latest Kurt Vile CD. Track One is Wakin On A Pretty Day . I dig that this tune is over 9 minutes long and that it takes its time laying itself out there. The Neil Young-inspired guitars over the rolling downtempo beat are perfect for this bending road. I pass thick forests, dew soaked meadows, and briskly moving streams. The mist from an eighteen-wheeler covers the windshield. I feel a little strung out on this road trip. It's not a Sunday Morning Comin' Down kind of strung, more that wired and fuzzy, ramblin' along the by