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Edited by Berklee Online music business student Kyle Bylin, <strong>Song Stories<\/strong>&nbsp;is a collection of essays written by music professionals and independent artists about songs that impacted their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nick Drake -  Cello Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4y8WGOJu_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>My first gig out of college was working at State Street Bank in Quincy, Massachusetts as a mutual fund accountant. I was a history and politics major in school, listened to a ton of music, and hadn\u2019t taken a math course since high school. The details are murky, but I remember some anxiety before graduation about post-college life, a quick meeting with the career advising center at Assumption College, and the assurance that State Street Bank was a great company to work for. I started in June of 1996.<\/p>\n<p>State Street Bank likely <i>is<\/i> a great company to work for, but I found the task of calculating the net asset value for mutual funds on a nightly basis to be extremely difficult and not a great fit for my skillset. Not only was I trying to learn basic accounting in the early mornings before work (I didn\u2019t fully comprehend the difference between a debit and a credit, for example), but I also was teaching myself to use the numerical keypad (I had never even heard the phrase \u201cten key\u201d). In a room full of accounting majors, I was falling behind quickly. I left after four months or so. It was a character-building experience.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Around this time, a good friend of mine, Jon O\u2019 Toole, had started an internship at a record label in Salem, Massachusetts called Rykodisc. The work he was doing at Ryko was like a dream, and as far from ten key and net asset value as you could get. Jon got me an interview with the college radio promotions director, and I was offered the position of \u201cunpaid college radio intern.\u201d In order to bring in some income, I leveraged my weak financial background to get a part-time job at Scudder Mutual Funds. I would work at Scudder in the morning, change out of my suit in the bathroom at noon, and drive from Norwell, Massachusetts up to Ryko in Salem to work from 1:00-7:00 PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While I was familiar with Rykodisc as the label that put out Frank Zappa, Morphine, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood records, I had no idea about the depth of their catalog. On one of my first days in the office, my boss took me into the mailroom and gave me a 20-minute overview of Ryko\u2019s catalog \u2014 Ali Farke Toure, Old and in the Way, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Tom Verlaine \u2014 loading me up with key titles from each artist. In particular, I remember him very clearly\u00a0handing me the first title in Nick Drake\u2019s short catalog, <i>Five Leaves Left<\/i>. I was told something along the lines of \u201cput this one on if you want to get the ladies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On my drive home that night, I listened to what my boss\u00a0had given me. While most of the music was amazing (Ryko had some great A&amp;R), the artist that really struck me was Drake. He was like a musical alien\u2014his odd tunings and sparse instrumentation (\u201cPink Moon,\u201d in particular) really appealed to me. I was apprehensive about my move to Ryko and unsure about my future in music, but when I heard \u201cCello Song,\u201d I felt that everything would be okay.<\/p>\n<p>How could it not be, when I was working with something so beautiful?<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>I was shocked to learn a few weeks later that the sales of Drake\u2019s entire catalog, according to Nielsen\u2019s SoundScan, were only about 90 units a week! Although R.E.M. and The Cure cited Drake as a major influence, Drake\u2019s music was still relatively unknown. It became my mission to tell as many folks as possible about Drake. Although one can argue that Volkswagen did the heavy lifting of raising his visibility by using the song \u201cPink Moon\u201d in a Cabrio commercial in 2000, I like to think I played a small part. Nick Drake and, in particular, \u201cCello Song\u201d represent the beginning of my professional life in music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Song Stories<\/strong> is available for purchase at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01N6M3RTR\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard \u201cCello Song,\u201d I felt that everything would be okay. 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