Daily Discovery: Wise Old Moon, “I Know What You’re Made Of”

ARTIST: Wise Old Moon

SONG: “I Know What You’re Made Of”

HOMETOWN: Hartford, Connecticut

CURRENT LOCATION: A 3 bedroom apartment where we live in the West End of Hartford, Connecticut.

AMBITIONS: Whenever we travel as a band we find ourselves eating a lot of falafel.  We’ve been talking for some time now about writing a travel guide featuring the best falafel restaurants we discover along the road.  So far our favorite spot is Tangiers, which is right across the street from our practice space in Hartford, Connecticut.

TURN-OFFS: Bad falafel.

TURN-ONS:  We are turned on by other like-minded musicians who we perform alongside and collaborate with.  When we find other artists who inspire us and challenge us to be better at what we do, we develop an endearing band crush and its pretty hot.    

DREAM GIG:  It would be great to warm up the stage for one of our biggest idols, John Prine!

FAVORITE LYRIC: “…Wine was flowing, so were beers, so Jesus found his missing years.  He went to a dance and said ‘This don’t move me,’ he hiked up his pants and he went to a movie…” That is a lyric from John Prine’s song “Jesus, The Missing Years.”  Prine says that everyone knows Jesus as either a baby or as an adult with a beard, but this song is about the time in between and tells the story of Jesus as a rebellious teenager.  We always loved that concept.

SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Beer Run” by Todd Snider.  “Beer Run” is a great song about that moment you run out of beer and you have to get more.  It is so simple and perfect, smart, funny and also ridiculous.

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: 1. Tom Waits  2. Bart Simpson  3. The Spice Girls 4. Bernie Sanders 5. Ferris Bueller

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE:  Recently saw Dave Rawlings Machine in Northampton at the Calvin Theatre.

I WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE…“I Know What You’re Made Of” covers a brief moment of thoughts that go through your head when you’re in a relationship.  It’s confusing, it’s great, it’s overwhelming, sometimes all at once.  The song talks about self-doubt and anxiety, you’re trying to decipher what the hell is going on with this person that you’re with, knowing that no matter what you’ll never quite understand or identify with what they are truly feeling.