Destination: Beautiful

My preorder of Mae's album Destination Beautiful vinyl finally came in!

Mae is my favorite band. They are from Virginia, the tidewater area. I first found out about Mae in a rough, changing time in my life and their album The Everglow really got me hooked on them so I found their older stuff and it was all she wrote.

I related to their songs, the lyrics within them and their music is positive and uplifting as opposed to the melancholy emo music scene their music was released within.

My wife Nikki was introduced to them, of course by me. She likes them just as much and even joined me to see them play in Richmond.

Mae lifts my spirits and puts me in a great mood. They have also done some wonderful work in their community and money takes a backseat to music and being good people.

My favorite song from this particular album is below and fitting for the season we are about to enter .

Mae
Summertime

Summertime, summertime brought me back to thinking you were mine all those times.
We laid it down and left it all behind, we were blind.
Oh, the summertime.

We could ride, we could ride.
Take my hand and watch the world go by.
Laugh or cry, well we need to try, get off the line, time to fly.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It's you and me, we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive...

Here we are, here we are,
windows down we see a falling star.
Stop the car.
Waiting for nothing but our beating hearts, going far.
Oh, the summertime.

So feel the air, feel the air,
take the map and point to anywhere.
I don't care. Fingers through your hair,
the sky I've seen is blue and green.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It's you and me, we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive...

Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away.
Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away.
Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away, yeah.
Just driving away, leaving it all behind.
Just driving away, yeah.