07/19/2020 – Question Re: “Favorite Songs” – 1 of 2
Imagine forward in your life, to a nursing home setting – What song(s) piped into the room would be most likely to bring you back to your youth? If you are of a mind , in addition to title and artist, give us a link. (Note – Currently, a vast majority of our brothers with user ids for reply here were born after 1980)
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Jimmy Bruce
1) “Salty Dog” by Procol Harum *a
2) “Goodnight Saigon” – by Billy Joel *c
3) “Front Porch Song” – by Robert Earl Keen *b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMPTYSHfRWY
5) “LaGrange” – ZZTop *d
‘*a – I still enjoy this song, largely because I increasingly see it as an excellent allegory for the Christian warrior journey. I need to try to pull up the recording where they were backed up by a full symphony orchestra with sound effects. It also takes me back to Ft. Devens and long nightly drives through wooded New Hampshire with CompanyD roommates.
*b -The tale of Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett and a changing cast of jammers that would improvise on their front porch just off the campus of Texas A&M back in our time (late 70s / early 80s ?)
*c – even more moving when I heard it in concert.
*d – I recall the first time I really heard this song amped up, in this case with my 7th RRFS roommate jacking it up with those old hugh Pioneer Speakers ordered from the PX system. ZZTop – The Texian rock-n-roll band of all time! It doesn’t do as much for me now, but drooling on myself in the nursing home, this could bring me back, however momentary.