I have a nasty habit of getting stuck on a single song. Not sort of stuck, more like playing a song more times in a month than most folks listen in a lifetime. My most listened to song of 2012, which I was sent on New Years Day, has been played 93 times. According to iTunes I’ve listened to Damien Jurado’s “Working Titles” 228 times, and Maraqopa isn’t even out for almost a month.

Give me a few more days with Michael Chapman’s “You Say” and it’ll be well on its way to those numbers:

“You Say” comes from Light in the Attic’s first release of 2012, the reissue of Chapman’s 1969 debut album Rainmaker. And after hearing it for the first time yesterday, I’ve listened to almost nothing else. This is the song so many singer-songwriters stuck on British folk from the ’60s are still trying to write. And while I’m surely fond of their flattery, today I’m happy to listen to the inspiration instead. Over and over and over again.

You can pick up Light in the Attics reissue of Rainmaker from their online store or at your local independent record store.