I’ve been writing this blog long enough now (more than 5 years without missing a day!) that sometimes previous posts are completely new to me.
When Thisway popped up as today’s Random Weekend selection, I started writing about how I have no recollection of how I discovered this band and their one album in the late 90s. But the sentiment felt vaguely familiar, so I search the Meet Me In Montauk archive and, sure enough, I’d written just that already.
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.
Meet Me In Montauk 