The Honey Dewdrops’ latest album, Here in the Mountains, has an origin story that goes back to the summer of 1960 in the vast Arabian desert outside of the Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran.

That’s where a beautiful CIA operative met a dashing Air Force counterintelligence officer and the rest, as they say, makes for an incredible backstory for a wonderful collection of songs by one of my all-time favorite bands. Really.

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