There's an adage that says home is where you hang your hat. But for North Carolina blues rock musician Alex Blum, the adage stating you have to leave in order to come back might be more apt. The musician's travels resulted in his latest single "Hometown," a groove-riddled homage off his Good Weather album regarding where he grew up and the good-natured attitude of its inhabitants. 

"'Hometown' is a song I wrote while far from home, and it had truly been too long since I had been in my hometown," Blum, raised growing up in Chapel Hill but now based in Charlotte, says. "I had taken a trip full of idealism, hitch-hiking between off-grid communes and eco-villages and other various alternative living communities across the country and working very hard trying to contribute to what I thought was a positive mission. But the communities were beset by bickering, gossip, and slander, which I would have thought was part of ordinary life, but people would really kick each other out of a living situation over the most petty grievances."