Sometimes I wonder if music is as important to other people as it is to me. I spend a lot of time sitting on the porch and listening to music. Being a Pisces, it's just natural for me to listen to music. I've always got music on in the car. Sometimes, it's country music and sometimes it's Il Divo or Canadian Tenors or Celtic Woman. Sometimes, it's 80's music. Sometimes, it's old Southern hymns that we sang (and still sing) in church.
Country music is my first love. I love the old country stuff by Dolly Partin, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and Crystal Gayle. But I also love the new stuff like Brad Paisley or Luke Bryan or Lady Antebellum. I love George Jones and George Strait. George Strait might be the same age as my mom, but he's still yummy..... I think I know the words to all of Lorrie Morgan's songs.
I discovered Il Divo about 3 years ago. I'd been listening to Canadian Tenors and Celtic Woman for a couple of years prior to that and my mom called and said "you HAVE to listen to this." It was Il Divo singing "Amazing Grace" and I was hooked immediately. It doesn't hurt that they are VERY easy on the eyes. I'm working on learning the lyrics to all of their songs but the language barrier makes it little tougher than learning the lyrics to country songs. They sing in English, French, Spanish and Italian. Listening to them has reawakened my love of learning other languages. I already speak Portuguese and some French and some Spanish, but now I'm learning Italian too. Most of the time, I have no idea what I'm singing, but I have a good time nonetheless.
Tonight, I've been listening to hymns from church from when I was a little girl and a teenager. There are so many of these hymns that I can hear Granny sing. I was listening to "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder" and I felt like I was 13 again and watching TV with Granny while she rocked a baby to sleep while singing this song. Even though she's been gone for 13 years, I can still hear her voice. These old hymns give me strength sometimes and sometimes, they just make me happy. Tonight, it's a combination of both.
When H was little, he was convinced that I knew all the words to every song on the radio. He didn't realize that it was probably a CD playing. He told me once "Mommie, you should put out an album." Bless his heart, he didn't realize that Mommie can't carry a tune in a bucket. I do take a certain pride in the fact that he's almost 17 and I can still sing him to sleep in the car. He might be falling asleep as a defense mechanism, but I choose to believe it's because it's as comforting to him as listening to Granny or Mom or Daddy singing is to me. I've always sung to him and music has always been a part of his life.
I grew up listening to both Mom and Daddy singing and playing the piano. We are a musical family - my brother sings, plays the piano and was in the band in high school. My sister has a beautiful voice so do my nieces. H is in the marching band. Mom's sisters both have beautiful voices and Daddy's brother was in a real band in the 70's. Like they had a record and everything!
I hope other people find as much peacefulness, relaxation and happiness in music as I do. I honestly can't imagine not having an appreciation and true love for music.
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