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Grandaddy - "The Town Where I\'m Livin Now" from the 2023 album Sunday: Excess Baggage on Dangerbird Records

Long-time KEXP faves Grandaddy recently a digital-only collection of rarities and b-sides titled Sumday: Excess Baggage. With a career spanning three decades, there are a lot of gems within, including today\'s Song of the Day, a dreamy tribute to songwriter Jason Lytle\'s home in California.

\\u201cI like making songs like this," he shares in a press release. "Lots of bleak but sweet visuals. Everyday stuff available for everyone to see\\u2026but some of us just end up with the twisted work of documenting it.\\u201d

On the collection, he continues:

\\u201cAfter many years of hammering away at writing and recording as Grandaddy, Sumday seems to be the center of it and where it all peaked. To the journalists we were, \\u2018On the verge of greatness, underrated, overlooked, unsung.\\u2019 It was a tumultuous and exciting time for us for sure. Also very exhausting."

\\u201cRevisiting this material and reflecting on those times has been a double edged sword. Bittersweet is an apt word, I suppose. Twenty years after the fact, I\\u2019m just grateful to be alive and kicking\\u2026 celebrating that moment in time by re-releasing the original album, B sides and extras of that era, and even some raw cassette demos of the album itself a sort of sketchbook/rough draft of the LP in cassette form. So be it then. \\u2018On the verge of greatness, underrated, overlooked, unsung.\\u2019 This is what all of that sounds like. I\\u2019ll take it.\\u201d

Revisit our 2020 interview with Lytle on their last full-length, 2017\'s Last Place, and the passing of their bassist Kevin Garcia.\\xa0

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