it was twelve-ten
i was packing up the car, getting ready to leave about noon, and i got on the road and at... as i was driving, the wind was picking up and it looked like there was going to be a storm that kind of was blowing through. And, uh, it started to rain and i was, uh, about half a mile from i-94 -- which would be the expressway i would take to head first to the east and then south to dayton. and, uh, a tree limb had fallen in the road. and my last memories are two things: an suv climbed over the branches of the tree on the lane coming toward me, but the limb was so large in my lane that there was no way i was getting over or around it. and so i pulled off to the side, parked my car, pulled the parking brake, and it was twelve-ten. and that’s the last memory i have of that day
song history
July 14, 2019: I sat down with my father to record an interview in an Airstream trailer with the NPR program, Storycorps. All of the interview audio from this record was taken from this long interview. You can listen to the whole interview if you’d like — I share an early version of “Tough Luck” with him at the end.
February 2024: Our submission to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest included both this track and “Tupperware for Glass.”
March 2024: The official version is released on our full length LP.
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