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Welcome to a new occasional feature on FFW>>. It’s called Space Time and it involves us going to local musicians’ practice spaces, talking to them a little about where they practice and why, and then having them play a song for us. Apologies for the low quality of the video; we’re print journalists. We’ll get better. However, the quality of the song is quite high — good thing for me since I spent the last five hours listening to it non-stop while I edited this thing.

Our first band — also the inaugural participants in our Gearhead feature in the paper — is Nik & the Central Plains. They just finished tracking a new album, set for release in April, and this song will be on it; it’s called “Shade of Blue.” Check it out on CPTV!