June Bug 2020, week 2
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The prompt for this week was "inspired by yourself as a kid". When I reached the age where I wanted to start taking some personal agency in my music-listening habits, my first step was to raid my mom's dusty collection of Windham Hill CDs. George Winston, Tim Story, Shadowfax...these were my rebellious teenager new-age jams.

There was one song in particular that I listened to over and over: Windham Hill founder William Ackerman's "Conferring With The Moon", from his 1986 album of the same name. From what I remember of the liner notes, the song was written while sitting on a balcony in Europe, pining for some distant / lost / unrequited love, and picking out the same two chords over and over again into the night sky. Teenage-me found that irresistably romantic.

This song is...pretty much that song. It's not a note-for-note cover by any means, but it's the same gentle instrumentation over the same two chords, and it follows the same overall arc that I've known by heart for decades (through some truly baffling time-signature changes, I might add). We don't really have a word for that -- a loving homage? A shameless rip-off? A gritty modern reboot? You be the judge. Here's the original, so you can decide how much credit I deserve: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mglpm8aSg