2012 Music Top

Position: 97 of 100

Artist: Cross Canadian Ragweed

Song: 17

Album: Cross Canadian Ragweed (2002)

Alternate Video Link: http://www.vplay.ro/watch/svbw6e9s/

Cross Canadian Ragweed are a band I discovered via last.fm when i clicked the genre "Americana". Ironically they're Canadian, but they're style of music seems to be catered so much towards their southern neighbors that, if it weren't for the name, you'd be easily assuming they came from the heartland of the USA.

This particular song off their self titled 2002 album is not a recent discovery of mine, however, it found it's way back to my shuffle list this year and, in a sense, I re-discovered it.

I love this type of songs that contain such vivid imagery. The lyrics describe a place that, even though I've never been to, becomes and feels so familiar. It's something we can all relate to, the things that never change in the places we grew up and the fact that no matter how old, how rich, how important or how removed you are, "you're always 17 in your home town".