The Spirit

Posted by Chris Campbell at Friday, December 25, 2009

I'm sitting in my local coffee shop right now. Every day since this place opened earlier this year, the owner has played nothing but the radio. As I'm trying to locate a good Springsteen Christmas video, on comes Lucinda Williams' "Change the Locks." I leap from my seat, "Hey Mohammed, where'd this come from?" "Someone just dropped this CD off yesterday. I have no idea who it was," he said. After that Williams song comes Blaze Foley's "Clap Pigeons," a virtually unknown song but one of my all-time favorites. It's playing as I type. This just made my Christmas. What in the world are the odds?