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Vermont's Henry Jamison reached out to Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste about collaborating on a song, and we should all be thrilled that Droste agreed. That song, "Green Room," is an absolute folk pop delight. As a music fan, it's been thrilling seeing Jamison grow as an artist. Years ago we wrote that he showed an incredible potential, and with a song like "Green Room" he's just starting to reach that potential. Plus, it might be the best song ever inspired by the film Spirited Away. Jamison explains:  “ The song is specifically about being in LA and seeing the movie  ‘ Spirited Away ’  come on the TV while I half-slept on the green room couch. It was my then-ex-girlfriend’s favorite movie and brought on a flood of memories. It also features a very compelling character called ‘No-Face’, a being who is so spiritually empty that it needs to devour everything in its sight, a mythical “hungry ghost”. Being in LA, home to many would-be stars, I was forced...

If you like a song with a good story, it's going to be hard to outdo the latest from Henry Jamison. He wrote the song about a former partner. Nowadays, not only are they back together, but they find themselves quarantined together. As Jamison explains:  “I Forget Myself’ is a song of regret, written in the aftermath of a breakup. When I wrote this song a year ago, I obviously had no idea that it would come out in the middle of a global pandemic nor that we would be back together." The song itself is fairly brilliant. It's a fairly standard singer/songwriter folk song, but with this lovely twist as if it was being filtered through the brain of Brian Wilson. Jamison has always been a brilliant and captivating live performer, and "I Forget Myself" might be his first recorded song that captures that. You can watch the video for "I Forget Myself" below. The song, which features Darlingside, will be on his upcoming collaborative EP, Tourism . Tourism wi...