Quincy Dimmock traffic lights protest music video hits the Q

Singer/songwriter Cyndi Cresswell Cook
Cyndi Cresswell Cook file photo

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Quincy Center Dimmock traffic light music video on slow traffic lights in the Q hits the Q – at least one that bemoans how one of the increasingly mean streets of the Q is also wicked slow to travel.

As now immortalized on YouTube, award winning singer Cyndi Cresswell Cook has written Dimmock as well as sung this song in a music video wherein she bemoans her waiting and waiting and waiting even more at the traffic lights at the intersection of Dimmock and Hancock Streets in Quincy Center.

The Quarry’s first ever feature of a Citizen Musician protest music video follows as well as this song’s lyrics can be read here.

Dimmock is featured on Ms. Cook’s latest album Cloud.  It is currently in the top 20 on Jango radio and can either be purchased most everywhere where music is still physically sold or downloaded via her CD Baby link.

As Quarry readers will recall, it too has offered comment about the myriad of problems with the new and surely very expensive traffic lights along the still far from finished Hancock Street Misalignment project in Quincy Center.

While not a Quincy native, Ms. Cook hails from the South Shore as well as that some of her earliest memories of the Q are about its local parades along – yes – Hancock Street.

Singer stuck at Dimmock
A YouTube video still image

In an exclusive interview with Quincy Quarry, Ms. Cook provided the back story on her top of the charts traffic protest song.

“En route to my recording studio, Keep the Edge Studios at 1150 Hancock St., I noticed the long light at Dimmock St. 

The studio owner and I would joke about it.  Then I realized that it was the intersection of Dimmock and Hancock and that they rhymed as well as also with the word clock.

Traffic jam on Hancock near Dimmock
A Quincy Quarry file photo

I thought about how time was always in my thoughts when held up at a stoplight and that there was also a larger issue: time and mankind.

“When writing the song, I tried to include local flavor such as the bell towers, Squaw Rocks and the forefathers to make it better resonate with Quincy residents.

Additionally, the exterior video scenes were filmed on the streets just outside of the studio in Quincy Center to further underscore the Quincy connection.”

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