Got taken back in time last night due to the power of music. Went and saw Mel Tillis perform here in Greenville at our little 1939 vintage concert hall. Mel Tillis was great, his voice was strong and he sang the songs he was supposed to sing. I was sitting there, eyes closed, letting the music washed over me when suddenly, I was 8 or 9 years old again, riding with my dad in his company car. Sometimes he would take me to work with him in the summer, making the rounds at the various grocery stores on his route. There was always a Dr. Pepper and Hostess powdered donuts in the morning after our stop to Jess Orrs Store. About the only thing we could pick up back then was WBAP 820 am out there in Sulphur Springs. Back then, it was country music and not the uber-conservative talk radio that it is today. Even though I enjoy my metal and rock, at my core I was raised with the country greats such as George Jones, Mel Tillis, Waylon, Willy (and the boys), Charlie Rich, Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Tom T Hall, Charlie Pride, George Strait and the list goes on. Not this pop country drivel-crap of your Miranda Lamberts, Blake Sheltons and other singers that seem to think if you stick a banjo in a song and go out of your way to mention a tractor and how hard you work at the farm, that it is a country song. But the Pure Nostalgia that I felt in that minute was so powerful, it was nearly overwhelming. Back to when I was young, the whole world open before me, and two loving parents and a sister that I consistently annoyed that were pretty much the center of my world, if not the universe. I dont know where Im really going with this except that from time to time, I am reminded just how powerful of a memory trigger music is and always will be.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:23:51 +0000
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