The Wallflowers: Bringing Down the Horse…

I first came across this album as part of my ill-fated membership in the BMG Music Club when I was 16. I selected it because it contained the hit of the moment “One Headlight”, however it quickly grew to a place of honor in my CD collection. I listened to it all the way through over and over, which is something I don’t generally do to most disks.

However, like many other things as I moved to college it was lost. It made a brief appearance one Spring Break when I was home from school and decided to put all of my purchased CDs (remember, ripping CDs was nice and “legal” back then) in a box after I pulled them down to MP3.

A few hard drives later, all of that music was lost and so was the box that contained the physical copies. I was very surprised one winter evening, when my cousin came over and said “hey, remember The Wallflowers? I just found this CD out in the snow. You want it?” It wasn’t my copy, but it played through track 9 (of 11). That copy has resided in the visor of my car since then, and I was always secretly frustrated that I couldn’t listen to the whole thing because of the scratches wrought on its surface.

While we were driving to Chicago this weekend, Tasha and I were listening to one of my favorite songs from the album (Bleeders, for the curious) and she recommended that I hop on iTunes when I get back to see if I could get a replacement.

Clearly, this album has been overlooked by the fickle society of today and was priced at a paltry $7.99. I have a digital replacement now, physical disks will follow shortly to replace my poor maligned car copy.

For the record, this blog post was inspired by ‘s mention of Quinn the Eskimo, which was written by Bob Dylan, who is the father of the lead singer of The Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan. You’re not going to convince me that Dad didn’t help Jakob write some of these tunes.