Walk. Germantown.
Rest in peace, Tina Turner.
Happy Birthday, Carter Anderson II.
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan.
What’s Love Got to Do with It? – Tina Turner
The Best – Tina Turner
Proud Mary – Tina Turner
Is My Love Enough – Carter Anderson II
You Make My Day – Carter Anderson II
Idiot Wind – Bob Dylan
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Everybody
One More Cup of Coffee -Bob Dylan
My Back Pages – Bob Dylan
Filed under Exercise, Friends, Louisville, Music, playlist
Walking (under strict conditions). Morningside Gardens. Pacing. The Shire,
Following songs by Carter Anderson:
Not the Last Gentleman
Daddy’s Little Trip
Left in the Dark
The One That Got Away
I Apologize
The One I Want
Because You Love Me
Don’t Want to Get Away
Is My Love Enough
Will You Marry Me
You Make my Day
Following songs by Bob Dylan:
Shelter from the Storm
One More Cup of Coffee
Positively Fourth Street
My Back Pages
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
All Along the Watchtower
Like a Rolling Stone
Mississipi
The Times They Are A-Changing
Girl from the North Country (with Johnny Cash)
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Blowing in the Wind
Idiot Wind
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Everybody (30th Anniversary Concert – BobFest)
C’est Moi – Camelot (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
Heading to the theater.
Traci Smith, author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home has provided a gift of the November 2018 Gratitude Every Day calendar. I am using it as an opportuity to revisit photos and post them as they speak to gratitude.
One of my former work colleagues and friends posted the following on Facebook:
In your status line, list 10 albums that have stayed with you. Tag ten friends including me. These shouldn’t be the critics list, but records that mean something to you. Do it fast. Don’t research it.
I don’t often do this sort of thing but I decided to give this one a try. I suspected that because of differences in our ages and tastes, my list would be quite different from his. It was. Both lists contained amazing music.
It also proved an interesting exercise because it allowed me to consider the tunes I carry in my heart and my soul. These are the soundtrack of my life. Each recording played a role in my life. They associate with moments and experiences, transporting me back across time and space. Many smiles accompanied the process.
Here’s my list. The significance to the order is the order they occurred to me.
This proved far harder than I expected. Here’s a second 10 – actually 11 since I sneak in two by Brother Neil.
And many, many more crossed my soul as I worked on this.
What tunes do you carry? What music would be on your list?
See you along the Trail.
Our quest to hear traditional music took us to several stops. The first evening we heard but two songs. The second, in Belfast, we heard a duo. They covered a number of songs by Christy Moore. They covered Dylan. They played well. We enjoyed the music. But it did not fit the bill of traditional.
On our final evening in Dublin, our final evening in Ireland, Tricia and I ventured to the Cobblestone with Joel and Roja. We talked. We consumed Guinness. We laughed. After a while, we said farewell as Roja and Joel left for a family dinner.
Tricia and I had another round as we waited. And the music began. Traditional. Soft. Sweet. Wondrous. We listened for an hour or so before we decided that the time had come for us to return to our hotel. I made a trip to the men’s room before we did so. On my way back, I looked above our seats. There I saw, present all the time but unnoticed until that moment, an expression of solidarity:
See you along the Trail.
A search for “Storm” in the song title brought the following playlist on my iPod. Clearly the timing on some of them makes a difference to a true playlist. This is simply an alphabetical list.
After the Storm – Bill Miller
The Great Storm Is Over – John McCutcheon
The Lightning Storm – Flogging Molly
Orphan of the Storm – Black 47
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
Shelter from the Storm – Bob Dylan
Singer in the Storm – Holly Near
A Storm Is Coming – The Return of the King
Storms in Africa – Enya
Weather out the Storm – Figgy Duff
See you along the Trail
Along the Graybeard Trail 