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Friday Flashback – Bill Ricchini – When the Morning Comes

Woo, it’s been a while.   The past few weeks have been fairly stressful and busy for a variety of reasons.  Most notably, though, the past week has found me fighting my dsl at every turn.  Pages would load halfway and stop, or they wouldn’t load at all (“What do you mean you can’t find the server google.com?!?!?!).  I finally beat it last night by switching from Verizon’s DNS servers to OpenDNS.  That minor change was like switching from a 14.4 modem to regular DSL.  It was such a relief that I watched a series of Kermit and Elliott Smith videos on Youtube before passing out, neglecting the various other tasks I’d been planning the past week.

After the tumult of that kind of night, there’s nothing more refreshing than some of the chamber pop of Bill Ricchini.  I remember purchasing this cd out of a used bin on a lark, because a little bell went off in my head that I’d read about it somewhere.  Usually, I can’t tell the difference between the warning bell and the excitement one, but this time I lucked out.  Ricchini’s songs are finely polished pop gems in the vein of Dear Catastrophe Waitress era Belle & Sebastian.  It’s a great, uplifting start to a day of traffic, powerpoint, and excel.  Yay!
Bill Ricchini – When the Morning Comes

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