What's a song you associate with your hometown?

I moved a fair amount when I was growing up, so I don’t so much have a hometown as I have places which managed to acquire a certain gravity along the way, which continue to exert some invisible pull, as I continue on my pilgrim way. When I was in 2nd grade, my family moved to the little town of Hudson—a suburb of Minneapolis/St Paul right over the St Croix River marking the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin—and it has remained one of those places for me.

Justin Vernon grew up 45 minutes further down the Interstate 94 corridor from Hudson in Eau Claire. When 22, A Million came out, I was living in Colorado, and now I live in Scotland, but “715 - CRΣΣKS” (715 being the Area Code JV and I both grew up in) always speaks directly to the part of my heart and soul that still belongs to—and finds some sense of home in—the St Croix River Valley.

Love, a second glance, it is not something that we'll need Honey, understand that I have been left here in the reeds But all I'm trying to do is get my feet out from the crease And I'll see you...