Damien Jurado:
Rehearsals for Departure (1999)
This album quite simply moves me. Particularly the opening track "Ohio." There was one night, it was like three in the morning and I was just driving through downtown and it was dark and I was feeling sad and alone and when it came on it just hit. The atmosphere of the song and the way Jurado sounds is just moving. I listened to it probably about thirty times and ended up red-eyed by the time I got home - that sounds really s
hitty but it was beautiful.