


DIG IT
This is the title track, Not the way, of Cass McCombs debut album Not the Way. I remember when i first heard this album i was going through a transient faze in my life. I had just moved out to the bay area from Chico and was bouncing from couches in Oakland and San Francisco while trying to find a new job. I really didn't know a lot of people and for the first time in quite some time, it was difficult to find some one to go grab a beer with. i remember immediately relating to this song. Cass McCombs has since become a favorite artist of mine and there is always something uplifting and peaceful about his somewhat melancholy lyrics.
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870)