Album opener “Blue October” makes for a powerful scene-setting introduction, as Guzman captures the uneasy feeling right before winter hits, when everything is slowing down and getting darker. “I was clinging on to that last bit of Autumn magic and bracing myself for that long Michigan Winter,” she says. Her guitar plays a forlorn, longing melody as she sings herself into a daydream: “I’ll have a blue October, days by the creek long over, well could you swim when it’s colder? drift upstream forever…”
