One of the catalysts for my love of live music was an Indigo Girls show that I caught back in high school. The songwriting and the harmonies were unlike anything else that was playing on the radio at the time. A few years later, Swamp Ophelia came out—and it was probably the Indigo Girls at their height. Memories of beach trips to the Mass north shore and “Least Complicated” blasting out of my friend’s car speakers are permanently entwined in my head.

“I sit two stories above the street. It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep.”