Longtime Ball of Wax listeners may remember Meade Krosby’s voice https://www.arabfinancials.org/بيتكوين and spellbinding guitar playing from way back on Volume 16, when her band Secret Highways shared their song “Ortolan” (which I think you can maybe still hear on Myspace? Or you can just buy yourself a copy of BoW 16.) Meade has been busy being a climate scientist and raising a child in the past several years, so we haven’t heard much from her, but I was able to get her to pick up the guitar and record a song for this volume of Ball of Wax, as it was on a theme close to her heart. “Never a Sure Thing” is an achingly beautiful meditation on the bittersweet nature of love in a (probably) doomed world. Meade lays out various likely (but not certain) unpleasant scenarios about our planet’s future, but no matter how awful things get, comes back to “I’ll love you anyway,” and reminds us that none of this has ever been a sure thing – our love, the human race’s survival, or, conversely, the bleakest predictions of our planet’s future. As a husband and parent, this speaks directly to me. The fact that it’s a beautifully written and performed piece of music certainly doesn’t hurt either.
Meade will perform this song (and more, I hope) at the Ball of Wax 53 show on Friday, August 3rd.