Yeah, this is new. Is it worth your time? I doubt it. I just had a few minutes on my hand and wanted to do something new.
The purpose of this page? What I'm listening to lately and my thoughts.
My musical tastes run the gamut. In my collection you can find music by Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols and
The Ramones. As well as Robert Johnson, U2, The Counting Crows, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. REM, The Doors,
Pearl Jam, Thin Lizzy and Elvis Costello. However,the only artist that I've heard in a long, long time that really excites me is Lucinda Williams.
That's what I've been listened to for a good while now.
I'm listening to the re-issue entitled "Lucinda Williams" which includes 6 bonus tracks. Also "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
and "Sweet old World". She is an amazing singer, songwriter, and a talent of huge magnitude.
They say that nothing can ring the memory bell quite like our sense of smell. While that may be true, music also
holds a very special place in my heart, and it can and always does bring back memories. Thanks to our buddies over
at Napster, I've recently downloaded the songs on Carole King's " Tapestry " . I can remember when I was young ( 5 or 6 ) sitting in my uncles car with
my brother listening to an 8-track copy of Tapestry. It didn't mean so much then, but it planted the seeds for
some appreciation later. Fast forward about 13 years when I was a love sick puppy. At the age of 15 or 16 I was deep in love for the first time, and it was the summertime
and my truelove girlfriend was hundreds of miles away visiting family for the whole summer. I
was helping my father farm, and we were in the process of moving equipment one day when I heard " So far away ".
I'll never forget anything about those moments. I can remember driving my fathers pick-up while he was on the John Deere Combine.
I was a young dreamy eyed teenager who had the world in the
palm of my hands, and I knew it, but I was missing my baby. My body in Allsboro, Alabama and
my mind in Gulfport, Mississippi. I heard the song that forever changed the way I would hear Carole King.
Fast forward another 18 years to the grand old age of 36. No, I never married that girl who was so far away when I needed
her most. I haven't seen or heard from her in oh so many years. I'm married now. and very happy.
I have a wonderful wife and a wonderful little son. The both of them make feel so very happy.
It's a different time, and we all are different people. But I'll never hear that song
without dredging up some old memories. That's what music does to me, and though it doesn't break my heart to hear it now,
I'll never forget that day or how it made me feel.
