In Love Drunk's 115th session, Frontier Ruckus (Ann Arbor/Detroit, Mich.) takes a break from a Benson-area barbecue to perform "What You Are."
The song is off the band's first record, The Orion Songbook.
"I think I wrote it in 2006," said frontman Matthew Milia. "I think it's a song where the 'you' was myself, and I am also the 'I,' having a sort of dialogue with myself. I am reminding myself of little fanciful details of my inherited domestic and emotional life."
Milia says the song has become a staple in their catalogue and live set.
"I think it's due to a certain reliable simplicity that remains equally profound to us," he said. "It's got an unchanging quality that never fails to sum up a lot of the heavy, at times complicated notions of family and home and memory that we sing about."
Check out the band's latest album, Eternity of Dimming, here.
The band was accompanied on "What You Are" by Gerardo Meza (Lincoln, Neb.).
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* performed on Tuesday, July 9, 2013
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