Anyone that knows me, knows one of my loves in life is music. I can't play it, I can't sing it, but I can listen to it.
I was thinking tonight, as I sat down in my living room listening to my small son sing "Closer to Fine" at the top of his lungs from bed, that my love of music is being passed down to my kids. They both love music, and our home is filled with music on most days. In fact, Rick and I spent quite awhile last night giggling, because we could hear Brian singing at the top of his lungs with his iPod as he was going to sleep.
Rick got me an iPod for Xmas in 2006. I had been wanting one for several years, and he finally gave in and got me one. It was liberating for me. All of the sudden, all the music I had locked away from my kids, was suddenly at my fingertips again. After such a hard few years, it was what I needed to start feeling like "me" again.
When I told him that I wanted an iPod, and only an iPod, I really did want it. Little did I know, it would come to be so incredibly important to me. In less than a year, I had filled my little 2 gig Nano to the brim, and started pestering him sometime in the fall last year for a new one, a bigger one that could hold more music. Finally he gave in, and bought me a new bigger one this Xmas.
Someone recently posed a question to me, if you had to pick a soundtrack for your life, what would it be?
I've gone through so many phases of music over the years, it's a tough call. There was the old country music my dad listened too when I was a kid. Artists such as Charlie Pride, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn etc...I still have a fond spot for all of that old twangy country because my dad loved it so.
In junior high, I loved all the typical stuff, disco, rock and pop. I really loved disco, and I really loved that old slow cheesy pop music. Stuff like Dan Fogelberg, Bread, Hall and Oats. I could go on and on, but I think this gives you a a fairy good representation.
In high school, I moved on to artists such as Led Zeplin, Van Halen, Journey, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and ACDC,were what I listened too most. I always had records and the radio, but I would still go back and listen to my old music as well.
I also listened to many different genres, folk, r&b, the old school stuff, classical and country. I loved Aretha Franklin with a passion (I still do), I love Barry White and Luther Vandross. I love Prince, and just about anything popular at that point. Country is something that I've listened too all my life, but I still have to be in the mood to enjoy it.
What I've realized over the years, is that although I do enjoy all sorts of music, there have definitely been artists who have been constants for me throughout my entire life. People that I go back to, over and over again. Those of you that know me well can probably rattle them off without me telling you, but some of the artists that mean the most to me are people like Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, Billy Holliday, Journey, Alabama and Prince.
So there you have it folks.....there is my sound track, what is yours?
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