Twenty Years Gone By – A new song, a new reason to grin like a fool

Last month one of our oldest friends walked up after practice, handed us a folded bar-napkin with lyrics on it, and said, “Boys, my 20th anniversary is coming up and I wrote my wife a blues. Make it sound like it’s supposed to hurt so good.”

We read it. We teared up a little (don’t tell anybody). Then we did what we always do: we went down to the basement, tuned the resonator to open G, and let the room decide what the song wanted to be.

“Twenty Years Gone By” is the result.

It’s got that slow sunrise groove we love, a little Robert Johnson ache, a little Ray Wylie Hubbard grin, and a whole lot of truth. We laid it down live in one afternoon—no click track, no headphones, just four friends and one very patient microphone.

You can stream it everywhere now, or grab the single on Bandcamp if you want to throw a couple bucks toward the next round of strings and beer.

Here’s to every marriage that’s still writing new verses after twenty trips around the sun. Here’s to the ones who still get butterflies when the blinds let the light in.

Play it loud for the person who’s been riding shotgun all these miles.

– Bare Mountain Blues South Amherst, still stupid in love with this life

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Listen here: https://audius.co/baremtblues/twenty-years-gone-by