My father and I were hauling trash in my truck, and I put this CD on as something he might tolerate. When the first track, Rehab, started he said, “I love this song.” Apparently he’d seen the video on TV and it’s been stuck in his head ever since. This from a man whose music timeline ends somewhere around CCR.

The album feels both old and new. “Instant classic” applies here. Everyone I know loves it, as they should. But I’m still dumbstruck that my father and I both like an artist I first heard on NPR. Inconceivable. Highly illogical. Does not compute.