365 project: "and at some point ill call you and tell you i miss you and that you are the point of my day."

60.

artist:Kevin Devine
album:make the clocks move

oh, my, Kevin devine. my love for this man and his music is a very strong love. i shout it from the rooftops. i sing his praises whenever I'm given the opportunity. i have been instrumental in getting at least a few of my friends into listening to his stuff.

if you ever get the chance to see him, take it. i mean it. I've seen him a bunch of times, and every time its been like a big ole' family reunion.

if you haven't started listening to Kevin Devine yet, i have two things to say to you. 1) why the heck not? I've only been pushing him on you for years, and 2) start with this album.

unfortunately i didn't start with this album. i don't know why, actually. well, wait, yes i do. that's a story for another entry, though. make the clocks move got reissued last year, and that is when i finally got around to purchasing it, and even then it was just because Jesse Lacey wrote a forward in it and i wanted to read what Jesse had to say about his best friend.

i knew all of the songs before I'd heard the album because of all of the times I've seen Kevin perform, and from all of the live shows that have been bootlegged and are floating around in my CD collection. i had my favorites, for sure, before i listened. "the longer that I'm out here," "tapdance," "I'm not over you yet," and of course "ballgame" are some of my most listened to and most quoted songs. there is something about the lyrics here that i find so relatable, even if he was in a totally different place while writing them than i am now while listening.

he sings a lot about his friends not calling or caring, and i get that. he sings about being lost and alone, and i get that. he sings about missing someone and loving someone so much he doesn't know how to deal with it, and i get that, too. I'm starting to think that i already wrote about this album, because i feel like I've said all of this before.

guess what? i just looked, and i have indeed written about it before, just not for this project specifically, though I'm thinking it was the album that made me decide to do this project to begin with.

maybe I'm wasting my words saying the same things over and over again, or maybe this time someone will listen and check Kevin out for the first time. who knows what will happen. all i know is that i could leave this album on repeat in my car for days and not get bored.