Dorothy

Kevin Morby wrote “Dorothy” as a love song to his guitar — a black Gibson he’d named after his grandmother. What starts as a sweet, specific joke turns into one of the warmest songs in his catalog, a rolling Americana number with a band that sounds like they’ve been playing together in a basement every week for a decade.

The groove is loose and forgiving, the chorus is a benediction, and by the time it ends you feel like you’ve just been welcomed back somewhere you didn’t know you’d left. It’s the kind of song that does the driving for you when you’ve forgotten how.