Welcome to My Music Mondays. Each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at Ingram Hill.
I’m not going to make any lame excuses about it. I dislike summer. I dislike the heat. I dislike the long days of sunlight. I pretty much dislike everything about it and would prefer to stay indoors away from the retina burning light of the sun. However its generally frowned upon so in an effort to stay social I do venture out in the sunlight on occasion. One thing that helps me get through the long, heat filled days (besides copious amounts of vodka) is music.
I have a very particular taste in music when summer roles around though, the music should generally be upbeat but not very heavy, almost laid back in a way but filled with the positive vibes that the sun is sucking out of my soul every minute I have to be out in it. Over the next few weeks for My Music Monday’s I am going to highlight some of my favorite “summer” bands. That’s not to say that their music isn’t good for me during more ideal forms of weather (like maybe a blizzard) but listening to these bands during the hot summer months always makes me feel less like killing small children than normal.
The third band on my small checklist is Ingram Hill. I first saw the Memphis based band open up a show for Hootie and the Blowfish at the House of Blues in Atlantic City and I was left mildly impressed. I decided to give their first album, “June’s Picture Show” a shot and really liked what I heard, so did my wife and we’ve been fans since then. They play guitar based, pop-rock filled with catchy hooks along the lines of “The Clarks”, and “Pat McGee”. I haven’t seen them in the area since that Hootie tour but they are still around creating music so I view that as a good thing.
Favorite Album: Cold in California
While I think “June’s Picture Show” is a fantastic album and actually has more songs on it that I would deem favorites, “Cold in California” is just a more solid album.
10 Favorite Songs
10. Impossible
9. The Captain
8. Firefly Ride
7. Almost Perfect
6. Never be the Same
5. She Wants to be Alone
4. Chicago
3. On My Way
2. Maybe It’s Me
1. Four Letter Word
So what do you think of Ingram Hill? Better yet, have you even ever heard of them?
