Geography can have everything to do with how a song hits you. I’m sure “Born On The Bayou” means something particular to you if you we actually, you know, born on a bayou. “Rocky Mountain High” might bring more of a tear to your eye, if you have a personal relationship with the Rocky Mountains.
Songs like “Back To The Island” and “Never Been Gone” and “Into The Mystic” mean more to us, here on Martha’s Vineyard, than they probably do to folks who live in Iowa or some other land-locked place.
And when we discover a new song, with a Sea-theme, we eat it right up.
When we met Ingrid Michaelson for the first time, she did “Far Away” (which was originally “Untitled”) during the interview. And even though we were in Louisville, Kentucky to record the performance, far away from the ocean, it still gave me a little tingle, to discover a song that starts:
I will live my life
As a lobsterman's wife
On an island in the blue bay
He will take care of me
He will smell like the sea
And close to my heart he'll always stay
Hear the mvyradio interview with Ingrid here and hear a whole concert recorded by mvyradio at Cape Cinema.
See the Ingrid sing “Far Away” on a Nantucket Beach, courtesy of our friends at Plum TV.
Buy the album "Girls And Boys," here
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