Songs I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved (An Occasional Series): Special "Electric 12-String Guitars Rule!" Edition

From 1987, and the evocatively titled In the Heart of the Heart Country, please enjoy Madison, Wisconsin-based folk rockers Fire Town and their sublimely jangly "Carry the Torch."

As is so often the case these days, the song popped into my head unbidden over the weekend. The backstory is that the indie album that it's from crossed my desk at Stereo Review with no advance warning, and it will surprise nobody to learn that the main reason I gave it a spin immediately was due to the Vox guitar posed so enticingly on the right hand side of the album cover.

As for Fire Town, they got signed soon after to Atlantic, who re-released the album; alas, it still refused to sell despite my raving about it in the pages of SR. Two of the band members, however, went on to form Garbage with Shirley Manson, and the rest, as they say, is history.

That said, the whole album is great; I think I have a complete download of it somewhere, so if the above piques your curiosity, gimme a holler and I'll send you a zip file.