Do you remember what it felt like when you were five and your kindergarten teacher gave you a scratch-n-sniff watermelon sticker as a prize for coloring inside the lines? You probably felt pretty amazing and wore that sticker on your shirt and scratched it so much that all your little friends smelled watermelon too.

I felt way better than this when Jeff called recently and said our music had been reviewed by The Gazette. It feels so good to get a nod, positive or negative, by an objective listener. And overall, we were pumped by what Bill Reed had to say.

And if I’m honest, my happiness transitioned to exhileration (i.e. jumping up and down for 10 minutes) when Jeff read to the bottom of the review: “The second half [of the album] is mostly moody and thoughtful, punctuated by stirring violin.” My violin playing, according to a person I’ve never met, was “stirring!”

It really is the simple things, isn’t it?

Thanks for letting me pat myself on the back.

Posted July 11th, 2007 by Leora in music |