There are many times I turn on the radio and and think, hey, that’s a catchy tune. It happened recently for Darius Rucker’s delightful cover of Wagon Wheel. I’ve always liked Mr. Hootie, mostly because he’s right in my wheelhouse as far as his voice range goes, so it’s easy to sing along to his music.
Since moving to NJ, I’ve mainly only listened to the local ESPN talk radio station. I’ve flipped over to that 100 FM station now and then, but most of those songs sound like they’re written by 5 year olds with auto tuners. Recently though, NYC got a country music station. Being from the south, country music has always had a special place in my heart. It makes it easier to enjoy my southern accent when I belt out some acoustic guitar and banjo heavy song.
Anyway… back to Wagon Wheel. Like I said, it’s a catchy tune. When I really like a song, I usually end up going home, finding it on Youtube, then also Googling the lyrics so I can figure out what in the heck the guy is saying. I did this for Wagon Wheel and was simply amazed how easily I could fit the song into my own life. Right time, right place I guess. Since brevity is the soul of wit, I will be brief in describing how it correlates with me, but I’ll post the the song and lyrics if you want to go jam out to it for yourself.
Basically, the song talks about a guy who has had a little trouble in the North, and is now hitchhiking down the east coast to get back to his lover in Raleigh, NC. Its easy for me to sort of insert myself into the song. We took a gamble moving up north, it didn’t pay off and now we’ll be moving back south. Not back to our home state of NC, but a little further. Another continent actually. But I can already picture myself singing this sound for 9 hours as I drive home to NC in early August before flying out days later from Charlotte to Ecuador. It just feels right.
