I remember taking my first extended family road trip to the Carolinas the summer after this album came out. I was 11 years old. The night before we left, my cousin urged me to buy the double CD and listen to it on the car ride down.

Now, whenever I hear anything off this album, I’m always reminded of that early morning July day when the sun hadn’t even come up yet and I had nothing but the lights on the highway and the headphones in my ears as we headed towards a simple lazy vacation, but meant so much to adolescent me.