MUSIC FOR JULY 2023
‘YOU WORE IT WELL’
Here’s a song that describes the course of a relationship through things found on the skin — sweat, perfume, tears, a lover’s hand. The concept lived in my notebook for a while until, in a hotel room in Portsmouth, N.H., in 2013, I roughed out some words. Four months later, in a cabin at the Chautauqua in Boulder, Colo., “You Wore It Well” came together with a minimum of agony, as the better songs seem to do. Here’s Day for Night in performance at Quill, Westbrook, Maine, Aug. 5, 2018.
Hear “You Wore It Well” below! Buy it on Bandcamp! (Above: Doug Hubley and Gretchen Schaefer are Day for Night. Below: Wearing it well in 1988. “You Wore It Well” copyright © 2014 by Douglas L. Hubley. All rights reserved.)