Jason Adamo And The Song "Raleigh Nights"

Cris Cohen: The tune “Raleigh Nights” is one of the hookiest things I’ve heard in a while.

There is the one line – “a blonde-haired girl who smelled just like a Saturday in June” -- which I love. With lines like that, how much of it is inspiration and how much of it is perspiration?

Jason Adamo: To answer that, we need to bring in my brother, Chris Adamo. Chris is a heck of a poet. When we were doing Transistor (album), he sent me a bunch of poetry.

One was a very long poem called “Raleigh Nights.” It was about a drunken night at the Pour House Music Hall. I think it was New Year’s Eve, because he “stumbled through the city late New Year’s Day.”

I took his very long poem… took a lot of the paragraphs out to turn into more of a song form. I added the chorus, “Take me home, it’s all right.”

That song -- I appreciate you saying that -- locally, we would call it our hit around this area. The Carolina Hurricanes used to play it at their home games every time they lost, which was, for a couple of seasons, a lot. Back in 2010 / 11. And then it was in a movie called “Raleigh, I Kinda Like You.” They used that on the soundtrack.