The song "Thirteen" is about your wife, Liz, and you've said it's your favorite on the album, but also that you used to have a hard time listening to it. Why is that?
There are some details in there that probably sound so regular, details that might feel like any details you'd use in a little love song, but they're real personal things. The necklace Liz gave me that belonged to her mother, who died when Liz was 9, and the place where we got married. It's just us, 100%. Some of it was hard to listen to. I would drive around and listen to the early mix of the album, and that song would just make me cry. And Liz, too.
How did you guys meet?
We were introduced by my old bass player, and we all went back to his house one night, and Liz and I sat on his front porch and talked all night. She was going on a road trip with her friend Anna, and she told me she was coming through Texas and didn't know anyone. I said well, you have to stay with the Kwellers. And then, for the rest of that month while she was on a road trip, we talked on the phone. That's how we really got to know each other. There's a line in that song about how we fell in love on the phone.
from an interview on babble.com:
The song "Thirteen" is about your wife, Liz, and you've said it's your favorite on the album, but also that you used to have a hard time listening to it. Why is that?
There are some details in there that probably sound so regular, details that might feel like any details you'd use in a little love song, but they're real personal things. The necklace Liz gave me that belonged to her mother, who died when Liz was 9, and the place where we got married. It's just us, 100%. Some of it was hard to listen to. I would drive around and listen to the early mix of the album, and that song would just make me cry. And Liz, too.
How did you guys meet?
We were introduced by my old bass player, and we all went back to his house one night, and Liz and I sat on his front porch and talked all night. She was going on a road trip with her friend Anna, and she told me she was coming through Texas and didn't know anyone. I said well, you have to stay with the Kwellers. And then, for the rest of that month while she was on a road trip, we talked on the phone. That's how we really got to know each other. There's a line in that song about how we fell in love on the phone.