The horrible gap between winter and spring, commonly known as March, can be brutal, especially in the Northeast. Here are some of my favorite tunes to inspire flowers, showers, and general goodness!

1. Sugar Magnolia, Grateful Dead

Sugar Magnolia is one of the Grateful Dead’s more well known and popular songs, and for good reason. When I hear this song it transports me to my yard back home where my two Magnolia Trees are blooming. For me, Magnolias are one of the first signs of spring, and when I hear this song I yearn for their sweet smell to fill the air.

2. Wild Child, Brett Dennen

For so much of my childhood, spring was the signal of the reentry of long warm nights of neighborhood games, and eating dinner on the deck. Spring and all of the smells and stimulus it brings with it remind me of my childhood. Brett Dennen’s Wild Child encapsulates this perfectly, and I always smile as he sings, “I love the country, and I want to run free…”

3. Clean Light, The Mowgli’s

Spring is all about the reentry of life and vitality back into the landscape, and what better to encapsulate this than a song about “clean light.” Clean Light talks about unity, and the sunshine, and love. It reminds me that there are longer, brighter days ahead where the sun stays up late and rises early.

4. Never Going Back Again, Fleetwood Mac

Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac is just a feel good song in general. The acoustic vibe is relaxing, and the low, smooth vocals soothe the listener. As I listen I close my eyes and nod as the song tells me that I’m “never going back again,” in this case (I hope), to winter. The author of the song, Lindsey Buckingham says it reflects a desire to not repeat previous mistakes, in my case, living in a region that experiences a prolonged winter.

5. I’m Good, The Mowgli’s

In this song, the Mowgli’s are singing about how life is good. And when we surge the crest from Winter to Spring, life truly is good.