Not too long ago I shared a song from a band I was in during college and you all were nice enough that I’ll brave another one. Here is our “love song.”

It may come as a shock to many of my readers, but in my younger days I spent much of my time playing music. I never excelled at anything, but I dabbled in quite a few instruments. Between high school and college I was in three different bands with three  different styles of music. Recently I went back and revisited a project I worked on in college with my friend Gary Wallace.

Gary and I called our group Standard and we recorded a handful of songs on my laptop. Below you can listen to our song titled “Trampled.” For me, it’s a fun trip down memory lane listening to this but I’m not sure what reaction you will have! If I don’t end up regretting posting this one I may even post more in the days to come.

As you can see from the graphic below (from one of our promo flyers), our claim to fame is that we opened up for Tyrone Wells.

I’m at the Story Conference in Chicago and one of the surprise hits has been a music duo named Listener. The style of their music is described by the lead singer as “talk music.” It catches you completely off guard and then mesmerizes you. Check out this video I recorded on my phone during an after-party for a brief clip of them:

In addition, they had a hilarious stage presence with very dry humor. Here are some of the things the singer said in between songs:

• “Thank you for clapping and whistling and stuff. This will be our 4th song if you’re writing in a journal or something.”
• “Does anybody have any questions?” (asked at two different times)
• “We have a website if you want to check it out. It’s open 24/7.”

If you are as fascinated by them as I am you can see more here.