I had seen a song on Billboard's Modern Rock chart called Wherever You Will Go by The Calling and considered what it might sound like. Soon after I saw the album, Camino Palmero, on sale at Best Buy for $6.99 so I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be the best investment of the year and one of the top ten CDs I was listening to in 2001. Wherever You Will Go is one of those perfect rock ballads
featuring Alex Band's remarkably sincere vocals and Aaron Kamin's skillful, atmospheric guitar work. The song not only went number one on the Top 30 Rock Songs, but also on the Top 30 AA Songs, Top 30 Pop Songs, and the overall Top 40. It is clearly one of the top five songs of 2001 based on my persoanl charts and I can only think 2002 bodes well for these five young men from southern California. I am already planning on charting Things Don't Always Turn Out That Way while Wherever You Will Go rides the heights of the national charts for the first quarter of 2002. Unstoppable would seem to be the likely candidate for the second official release from Camino Palmero and I will be poised to chart that then. So it looks like they are just getting started and 2002 will prove to be the year that the world comes to know The Calling.
