This one feels like a call to me to get back to one of the core kinds of songs I write - ones about old, old family stories that reach back 150 years. I like how you let it be okay that these names are missing. There's the tenderness in their eyes that is enough. Beautiful playing and singing.

This quandary is so relatable, and this song really speaks to me as I'm at a certain stage of life to be asking the same questions. It's beautifully and poignantly done.

One of my aunt's biggest gifts is that when she was in her 70s, she wrote names on the backs of all her photos. It's like having the Rosetta Stone for that side of the family. Compare the unknowns with the knowns and voila, lots of people and places get deciphered! Now I am the family keeper / curator, at least for this generation.

Lovely song and performance. There is something poignant about old photos. That's a nice twist in the bridge. I sometimes buy old photos at antique malls...not sure why, really.

Beautiful voice and delivery and lovely gentle fingerpicking.... I love the whole feel of the lyrics too. So wonderful to hear you. Thank you so much. Pearse

there are elements of nostalgia as well as anti-nostalgia in this well-written and performed song. what strikes me as most important thematically is the proof these old photos are confronting us not only with our mortality, but that eventually all vestiges of out existence will be forgotten

This is beautiful, Deb. Lovely gentle fingerpicking. I like how the bridge reframes the earlier verses, and how the first verse then returns in a new form, this time emphasising what's shared rather than the distance. Great stuff.

I found this song at just the right time in my life - been going through family photos lately for happy/sad reasons. Your voice and guitar affect me deeply.

Love the chorus and the nostalgia and magic of photographs - and the sense of loss we face as our plethora of digital media is lost, misplaced, deleted, as platforms and operating systems change. Beautifully expressed and delivered.

You've captured the feeling of puzzlement and disappointment when a picture has nothing written on the back. Or when the writer from 100 years ago figures everyone will know who 'Agnes' and 'Jack' are. On my last visit home, I sat down, went through old photo albums with my mom, and recorded her descriptions and reminiscences. Perhaps the memories will last a little longer.

I have that box too, and even if there are names on the back my brother and I don’t know who they are. And I have been thinking about how few digital pictures will be saved, or even retrievable, for future generations. But you have written a much better songs about it than I could have!

Beautiful, sentimental song with pretty guitar and soothing vocals. It's such a relatable song. I have been recently digitizing some of my wife's old photos and it has been surprising how few in her family know who is in the old photos from the 20s and 30s.

So glad you found your motivation to create, because I totally feel the same as you mentioned in your home page "Update." It had been hard to focus on anything else and the resulting overwhelming dread this month. Music is the one lifeline right now we all need.