Sometimes a song you knew from a decade or two earlier takes on a different meaning when you hear it in your current life. Maybe experience has given you a new perspective or insight. Maybe current events cast a new light on that old tune. Or maybe you’re just finally paying attention to it for the first time. 

Well, when we looked over some tariffic images from Rochester’s inspiring Hands Off rally at Cobbs Hill followed by a march down Culver Road and Monroe Avenue, we recognized we could provide an eponymous musical bed with our song “Monroe Avenue,” from our 1998 CD, “Play Along With Watkins and the Rapiers.” So we married those images with an unreleased live version of the song performed on the Nov. 17, 1998 Rochester Sessions show on Rochester Institute of Technology’s WITR. 

The song was written and sung by founding member Rob Goodwin, who has lived for the last quarter century in Montana. His words still hold true: ”You wouldn’t believe what you can see out on Monroe Avenue.”