branch out branch

Branch Out Branch appeared early on in my college years, when I thought I’d play the acoustic guitar in a sort of melodic way that was interlaced with chord progressions. This was the summer of the anti-Britneys, led by one Avril Lavigne, and while I was fortunate enough not to let her enamor me, for some reason I got into Michelle Branch instead. Listening back to it now, she’s not so bad, but I’m surprised at how much I dug her in the first place.

But even though my opinions on her music have mellowed since then, the guitar part that she inspired still crept around whenever I played the acoustic for a certain length of time. Five years later, I found myself playing it on the four-track to fill out some music for the record, and it became one of the standout tracks to me.

I’m still trying to figure out the connection between the two events besides their time proximity.