howl

the band.jpg

Ophelia, by the Band. There's really only one way to listen to this song. Driving on an open road, windows down, volume cranked to the point where the Delta horns scratch into your ears and Levon Helm's kick drum thumps against your sternum, and you're drinking from a cup of corn liquor and howling along at the top of your lungs, "Ophelia, where have you gone?" (If you insist on being a responsible adult, then sit in your parked car, windows down – in fact, find an industrial strength can opener and peel the roof off that vehicle, slop an extra portion of corn liquor into that tin cup, stretch out on your bucket seat and howl even louder, until you sound like a wounded animal.) Sweet.