Hooper Ridge Road...With the second installment in the series that I like to call September Sunrise, here comes a photo on one of my favorite roads in Athens County. Located between Amesville and Trimble, Hooper Ridge Road is a path the winds and stretches through some of the more striking bucolic panoramas of this region. If you are ever in the area, I suggest taking a joy ride down this lovely way. Also, be on the lookout for a really interesting house that Caitlin and I like to call Copernicus Court. It's a weird structure -- has shag bark that makes up the exterior, extra wide windows, and the whole thing looks like a strange castle (the top of the house has battlements etched out as if it were trying to defend an assault from the Duke of Nelsonville).
Anyway, it was a nice ride early this morning.
Yesterday was not very productive at all. Today will be all about getting things done. In addition to getting a couple things in the mail that needed to be sent, I spent most of the day yesterday listening to a band called The Dovers. I had originally heard of The Dovers from my friend Evan who had sent me a link to their transcendental song What Am I Going To Do several months ago. He had found out about The Dovers because Bradford Cox from a band called Atlas Sound had sampled What Am I Going To Do on a song of his called Walkabout. Anyway, The Dovers are a pop band that formed in the early 60s in California, were heavily influenced by The Beatles (and doo wop), and sadly had little or no commercial success. What's so pleasant about The Dovers though is that they are one of those bands whose music hits you like a discovered treasure buried deep within the abyss of lost time. It sounds like too many things at once and hits you like a rush -- a little bit of Beatles for sure, some early Motown hints in the drumming, and the bass and vocal harmonies sound like they are straight out of something off of Stax Records soul albums. I scoured the Internet looking for a place to procure one of their recordings and soon found out that this is a nearly impossible task. All I could find was an LP for sale through Google Shopping for $45. With the recommendation of Evan though, I was later able to find a place where I could download The Dovers album We Are Not Just Anyone in its entirety -- which is here, through Cassette Cathedral. Just follow the directions and download the zip file and it should be good to go. If not, at least here is the song (with lyrics) that stood out to me upon first glance:
What Am I Gonna Do - The Dovers
Chorus
Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you
1) Oh now I heard you say, 'bout a girl who took my love away
Now (that?) she left me all alone I've no one to call my own
Chorus
2) (We?) had everything there for my love to be
But all she ever wanted was to be set free
Chorus
Bridge
Well just what do I have to do
To get your sweet lovin' from you
Do I have to die once or twice
To keep you for the rest, the rest of my life, all of my life
3) If you were seventeen I'd still feel the same way
Well there's nothing in this world that will make me change my way
Chorus
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