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Day One Hundred Fifty Nine (Year Two)

I stumbled across a song and a band that I love tonight.  This, on its own, shouldn't come as a surprise to those who follow my musical ramblings.  What came as a bit of a surprise to me is that I already own most of their records, including the one that the song I re-discovered is on.

The Clarks are a band out of Pittsburgh that shot to some acclaim in the mid 90's/early 2000's with a bunch of really catchy, well written rock songs.  Most notably among them were "Better Off Without You," and the song I dusted off tonight, "Cigarette."

How, you may be wondering, does this fit into my binder goal, especially at this late of a time in the month, when I'm supposed to be focused on it as much as possible?  Easy.  At one point in the years I took lessons, I had a guitar teacher (a fantastic player named Jay Stulo) work up a tab for "Cigarette."  If I recall correctly, it isn't all that tough of a song to master, but remembering this led me to something else obvious that I should have remembered long ago: I saved everything from all of the lessons I've ever taken.  All of it is combined into a single blue folder that, by now, is almost completely falling apart, if only because I've carried it around with me for so many years.  There's a ton of vital stuff in that folder, and most (if not all) of it needs to find a way into my practice binder.  That folder shouldn't be all that hard to find... in fact, I can see it from where I'm sitting.  One of tomorrow's goals will be to go through that, and see just what I can pull from it for the binder.

This thing is going to come together.  Maybe at the last possible minute, but it's going to come together enough to be useable as a starting point by the first of the year.

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