The Red Circle

Top Ten of the Decade – #4

Song: Carbon Leaf – “Maybe Today“

Year: 2001

Link: ♫ http://twt.fm/358417

About: Ok, let me tell you a little story. The year was 2003. I was a resident of Findlay, Ohio, attending college. The city is quite small and full of life. The local college radio station (88.3 WLFC) consistently played a variety of music that barely reached the edge of town. I was regularly driving a 1998 Chevy S-10 truck at the time. I didn’t own an iPod (they were just blowing up at that point), so on the passenger seat of my tiny little truck, I always kept this cd case that held 250 cd’s (which I had packed full). It was insanely inconvenient because it was really heavy and always got in the way. One day it was raining pretty hard, and I had begun to get frustrated with my cd case. It was hard to sort through cd’s while driving. I came up to a stop light and quickly had to hit the brakes to avoid another car. My cd case flew out of the seat and landed on the floor of my truck. Angered, I gave up on trying to find something to listen to. I then turned the radio on to 88.3 WLFC and heard the very beginning of “Maybe Today“. It was incredible. I kept saying to myself, “I didn’t know Eve 6 was this good!” Turns out they’re not (I mean no disrespect). I had only ever heard a couple of Eve 6 songs at that point, so naturally I made an honest mistake. Anyway, after the song ended I kept waiting to hear the DJ announce who the band was, and what the song was called, but it never happened! The university would have a computer generated playlist consistently spin tracks throughout the day until the actual DJ showed up in the evening to host their show. I was furious, so right when I got home I started searching through Eve 6’s entire collection of music online in order to find this song… and I obviously couldn’t. I was heartbroken. Months later I ended up DJ’ing for the same station on Wednesday nights (good times). Right when I started, I was determined to figure out where this song came from. Low and behold, one day, I found it. CARBON LEAF! I had actually never heard of them, and was surprised. I ended up going out to the store that day to buy this album (Echo Echo), and instantly fell in love. A few months later they ended up releasing their Indian Summer album, which is when I became an official hardcore fan. As for the song itself, literally just listen to it. It’s calming, intricate, mellow, and tasteful. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. It actually sits easily in my list of favorite songs of all time. I’d go into more detail, but the story behind this song is what’s most fun.

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