I had a very clear recollection of where I first heard and purchased the album featuring yesterday’s SOTD (Los Lobos’ Kiko) but today is a whole different story.

Thisway’s self-titled album is one of those that may well have been conceived on my CD shelf by two other CDs. I have no recollection of how I got it or why. It’s actually a damn good album, in that 90’s alterna-band way, but where did it come from?

Thisway is a New York band that put out this one album in 1999. Wikipedia includes the rather amusing tidbit that the band “was dropped from the Reprise label soon after the September 11th attacks” as if those two events were somehow connected. I wonder if one of the band members wrote that.

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