Here is a good sampling of songs about the pains and pleasures of growing up. Dead Skunk became a stinker for Loudon when he felt pressure to make another hit - his latest songs deal with mortality, his son Rufus, and picking up poop. There is much wisdom and wit to reflect upon in this music. Looking back on childhoods, good and bad the love, angst, and trauma of our teenage years, or the bitter-sweetness of aging have all been fodder for some amazing tracks. It's a subject much loved by musicians, who have returned to it again and again throughout the years. Why We're Excited: Katie Pruitt's Expectations isn't just an album of clear-eyed coming-of-age songs about growing up gay in suburban Atlanta, getting out of bad relationships. But if the songs on this list have a message, they teach us that our youth seldom ever ends. That's something all of these songs can relate to.
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