Centro-matic "Patience For the Ride" from Fort Recovery Live at King Club Madison, WI Apr 9, 2006

I've gotten pretty lucky in my recording this year -- this is already my third favorite song from a favorite 2006 album I've happened to record. And as much as I love Jenny Lewis' "You Are What You Love" and Rainer Maria's "Life of Leisure," this might be the best song of the batch. The soft melancholy of this tune recalls both the recent vintage indie tones of bands like Matt Pond PA and the early Warner days of R.E.M.; if you squint, you can kind of hear Michael Stipe singing, "You can't touch the feeling of our hurricane hearts." This is the song that really launches Fort Recovery, and toward the end of the set it's a song that can make an annoying crowd or an extra-dark stage just disappear. Pure awesome.