Music hoping for nicer weather

This week's music is going to be music that I'd like to listen to if it were nicer out.

(HINT FREAKING HINT, STATE COLLEGE WEATHER)

So most of it will be folk music, and all of it will be good music. Let's begin!

FIRST SONG:

This song is Hang On by Dr. Dog. Everything about it is so good. They're just a bunch of great musicians getting together and having a good time. Honestly though, I'm a little nervous to say anything more about this song in terms of analysis...

Because the guy in the orange camo and funny hat playing banjo and doing backing vocals is my guitar teacher.

SO. I don't wanna get anything wrong.

NEXT SONG:

Blue Skies by Noah and the Whale. A lot of you might know this song already. It's kinda sad. But the music is really nice and it reminds me of summer. The refrain of Blue skies are coming always conjures up images of the most beautiful of days.

These guys also have such nice harmonies which is always a plus in my book.

NEXT SONG:

This is a song by one of my favorite musicians and also performed by a new discovery (but I like what I'm hearing). The song is Losing You by John Butler feat. Mama Kin. It's such a beautiful song. It's so peaceful and I really wish this particular session and performance was recorded somewhere where there weren't people walking by or wind. There is a studio recording, but it doesn't hold a candle to this performance.

John Butler is incredible. He became famous when a performance of his went viral on youtube. Some of y'all might have already seen it, the song is Ocean, and here is the video:

Fun fact about this song: If you notice, this is a twelve string guitar, yet it has only 11 strings. It's missing the octave up G string. This is because (if you heard him at the start of the video) he used to play songs like this when he was not famous and he ended up breaking the G string. Strings are expensive when you have no money. So he just played without it, and now he just never plays with it. Also, this is just an excellent performance. JB is a killer guitarist (not like he goes around killing people. I meant it colloquially).

So these are some songs that remind me of pretty weather in hopes that it will have some sort of influence over the State College Weather Gods. Clearly they are angry and if this doesn't work, I think we'll have to move on to sacrifice and I don't think anyone wants that.

Maybe this weekend everyone can just listen to their favorite summer songs all the time and then next week we'll have better weather. Yeah.

Oh damn, here's my doodle. Almost forgot. I forget this part frequently.

This is a face. I don't really know what the influence was. But I like it. I suppose it was sort of influenced by the artwork on Sublime album covers.

ANYWAYS. See ya next week folks.