Remember November

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2009:

...when I try and listen to it as an objective listener might listen, it seems like the singer is singing about a one-night stand; like restorative and much-needed sex with a stranger, standing up, in an alley. Doesn’t it?

But I wouldn’t know anything about anything like that. The song is really about something much more innocent.

My brother wrote the chords and progressions of the song and he also supplied me with the title. Then I came up with a melody and next, for subject matter, I thought back to a recent tour I had done in Scandinavia, that past November. I remembered a brief encounter I had had with a Swede. It was after one of my shows, and all it was a handshake and a few words (him: “your music means a lot to me, it helped me a lot through some hard stuff” … me: “thanks, man. I’m glad it helped you.”) and then a handshake followed by a small hug initiated by me.

A connection was made, in that instant. Or was felt; it already existed, and was waiting to be discovered. The moment had a power, an energy. I thought maybe the two of us – me and the Swede – had known each other in another life.