In this first episode, Amy's teenage daughter poses a question that sends the songwriter and musician looking back towards her Catholic girlhood in 60s/70s Pittsburgh; early musical obsessions and attraction to New York City.

Amy's songs used in this episode

• Playing Pittsburgh from The Old Guys
• Housecleaning from A One Way Ticket To My Life

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Babysitting, booze and boys; tall boots and the majesty of rock. Amy ventures on her own to downtown Pittsburgh, falls in love and plans her trajectory to NYC.

Songs used in this episode:

• Girls Got It Bad from Little Fugitive
• Dirty Bridge (Elliot Easton/A. Rigby) from Middlescence

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Art school, black jeans from Trash & Vaudeville, and my first trip to the Bowery with a boy named Bob.

Songs used in this episode:

• Bob  live version from Faulkner, Dylan Heinz & Me + studio version The Old Guys
• Dancing With Joey Ramone  from Little Fugitive

1977. Friends, family, fashion illustration and trying to figure out where I fit into it all. Oh, and the Sex Pistols are coming.

Songs used in this episode:

• Yankee Wheels from The Stiff Generation & Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me
• Always With Me from Little Fugitive and the Shams' Quilt

You never forget your first broken heart...or your first trip to England.

Songs used in this episode:

• The Leader from The Sandinista! Project
• Questions I Can't Answer sample from Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me
• Stratford on Avon 

1979: The Clash; a homemade club in lower Manhattan...and my first band.

Songs in this episode:

• Slow Burner - The Old Guys
• If You Won't Hang Around - The Sugar Tree (also 18 Again)
• Victory - Stare Kits live at Tier 3 1979
• Tycoon - Stare Kits live at Tier 3 1979

1980. He wore a tank top in winter and summer. But I loved him.

Songs in this episode:

• Dark Angel - original demo version + The Shams from Quilt
• Don't Make Me Laugh (B. DeMain/A. Rigby)  demo rough

Life as a London art student & music fan circa 1980-81, in a squat with punk legacy that included first rehearsals by the Raincoats. Fashion illustration attempts; encounters with a past love and a future one, 

Songs in this episode:

• Apple Green - 1991 demo A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Four Years Ago - early demo (1983-4?)   here