Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the release of Rusted Root's major-label debut album, When I Woke. Rusted Root was one of those strange bands that could only have existed in the mainstream in the '90s. It was folk, rock, worldbeat, jam, and psychedelic all at the same time, and it worked, at least for a few years. When I Woke was the band's most commercially successful album, eventually going platinum in the U.S. It reached #51 on the Billboard album charts (only topped by their 1996 follow-up, Remember, which hit #38).
When I Woke featured the band's most famous song, "Send Me On My Way," which has been featured in so many TV shows, movies, and commercials over the years that it's hard to believe it only got up to #72 on the Billboard Hot 100.
However, I'm going with the video for my favorite Rusted Root song, "Ecstacy." It's a blistering tribal jam, with sometimes-indecipherable lyrics and a subtle referee's whistle every now and then. If you were a college student in the Midwest in the mid to late '90s, you certainly remember this as a popular cover by Mike & Joe (or the full band, Michelangelo). Also, the video is completely fucked up, presumably spawned by an acid trip while reading H.G. Wells's Time Machine in a field of sunflowers.
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