Soundtrack

There can't be many members of my generation whose musical tastes are all about looking forward and embracing what is new. Most of us look back to earlier times when our musical tastes were just forming. Maybe this is one of the hallmarks of aging - the tendency to be nostalgic - drawn to what once was - when we were young. 

How many of us have even heard of Benson Boone, Noah Kahan, SZA, Fred Again and Baby Akeem? For your information, they all currently appear in the British hit parade of top twenty singles. No doubt such acts are being embraced by the young whose pasts were too recent to dwell upon. They look forward while living in the here and now.

Here are three songs from the soundtrack of my youth that sometimes seems so long ago that I am like a lighthouse keeper looking to some distant horizon for signs of three-masted sailing ships.

Fairport Convention "Meet on The Ledge" (1969)

Lead singers - Ian Matthews and Sandy Denny

Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

Released in 1969 but performed here in 1972

 

Jackson Browne "Rock Me On The Water"

Released in 1972 but performed here in 1978

Dear Visitor.... If you were put on the spot and asked to name three songs that captured the spirit of your early musical preferences, which three songs might you pick?

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Honest

 Lord

Give me strength

To continue

To use the gift

The courage

To be honest

Even when

I hurt 

My own feelings

Determination

To push past

Disappointment

And joy

When my life

Doesn’t look

Like I’d imagined 

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Crafting

 Lord,

You’re remaking me

In your image

And I’ve not realized

When pride is laid down

Work is done

In crafting perfection

I never understood what Your purpose was, but now I start to see what is happening. Your desires for me are bigger than I have for myself. I need to trust that I’m capable to do what you see for me. And you’re doing it while I’m clothed in old sweats and a Longhorn t-shirt.  I don’t need my legs to write. I just need a willing spirit and the talent that has always been there. I doubted the talent. I still do. I’m writing because it’s what you demand. 

Love yourself and one another

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