Crucial Track for July 14, 2025

"Long Journey Home" by The Bedquilt Ramblers & Ben Babbitt

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Growing up, all I wanted to do was leave my hillbilly pitstop of a hometown... I eventually did leave, and now that I'm gone, my brain fires in sympathetic ways when I think about it. Like what if I went back and made a small town life for my family? Terrible idea, but I think the reason it feels like it would be cool is because I've replaced the lore of growing up smoking ditch weed before geometry class with a more mystical version similar to the world of Kentucky Route Zero. Today's song is a song about being homesick from the game about a more interesting version of the American South I grew up in