In an increasingly disposable world, Rob Freeman and Barry Blinderman have maintained their close friendship for over four decades. Their love of music brought them together as teens in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. Barry had gotten his first guitar not long after seeing the Beatles perform on Ed Sullivan and was singing and playing in a folk duo, while Rob, a self-taught accordionist and pianist, already had his own sound-on-sound recording rig with original songs in the can. This album’s title, also the name of its closing tune, alludes to their frequent practice of staying up all night—whether at the end of a deserted country road or in the den of Rob’s split-level house—strumming songs, playing four-handed piano, and waxing philosophical. In their junior year of high school, they formed a band, Bleu Grass—recently described in Rocktober Magazine as a “Jewish garage psyche teen band.” Using the prize money they won in a local b...