STEPHEN TO ANNE MARIE:

SB: What is your favorite song?

AM: This was such a close call between Jarina de Marco’s cover of Give It To Me Baby and Have You Seen This Queen by All Day Breakfast. Gotta give it to Jarina, though. So hard to re-do a banger like that and make it fresh in its own way. Major props.

SB: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

AM: Nope! I especially appreciated the 2 tracks that just went AWOL with instrumental jam sessions in the middle. Very Stephen.

SB: Even though it’s 104 degrees outside, I can’t help but hope that Fall is on the way. A cool chill in the air, changing leaves and all the pumpkin spice flavored things we didn’t ask for but got. Much like my over-eager wife who buys the ingredients for cool-weathered chili while' it’s still hot outside trying to wish it into existence, when it comes to music, do you have any go-to songs/artists/albums that give you those Fall feelings and get you into that “soup weather” mentality?

AM: Great q…. I’m about to shapeshift into an autumnal person…or a leaf person… Bring out all the fall clichés, I’m ready for them. Fleet Foxes self-titled 2008 album is one that comes to mind. White Winter Hymnal and Blue Ridge Mountains are tracks that just make me think of fall. And on the other side of the spectrum, Adorn by Miguel. 3 Boys by Omar Apollo. Any version of It Never Entered my Mind (the jazz track). Haha, I’m just spitballing now. I think what’s funny about fall is, like, I think about fall being the gateway drug to winter, so it’s all kind of one merged season for me, where you wanna be inside when it’s crisp and chilly outside wrapped up with a good book, a good movie or a good man or all three until spring.

ANNE MARIE TO STEPHEN:

AM: What is your favorite song?

SB: If You Love Her by Tokyo Tea Room.

AM: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

SB: Nada one.

AM: Are there any prominent songs (recent or historic) that you messed up the words to when belting out or jamming to and then found out the lyrics were actually different later on, or when someone else corrected you? ?

The lyric debate I remember most vividly was in middle school when ‘I’m Blue’ by Eiffel 65 was big…and dad wouldn’t let me play their album during basketball warm ups…because he was convinced “Da ba dee da bah da” was really “Indeed I will die” and I couldn’t tell him otherwise. Yeah. That happened.

SB: Haha I definitely remember that debate. Mom too. Driving in the ‘ol Vanagon trying to convince her otherwise as well. The funny thing is that I don’t really know lyrics to most songs, even some of my favorites. I’m all about the vibe. So you’ll rarely find me belting out anything, but the one instance in recent memory came when the kids and I were in the car and Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ came on and it got to that part where he’s just riffing at the end and I’m singing “mama say mama saw my moccasins” but i’m pretty sure that’s nowhere close to what he says. The kids asked what it said and I just changed the subject, because I still don’t know.