Excitement hit our house the other day. A CD I had ordered and been waiting on for over a month arrived – finally. I couldn’t wait to play it. I bought the CD initially on the strength of one song – In My Daughter’s Eyes by Martina McBride. The time I watched this on you tube it reduced me to tears. Some songs are like that. Thankfully I like the rest of the CD as well.
Anyone coming to our house would see at a glance both Mick and I love music. For starters we have some of those really old fashioned things called records. Even better than that we have 78s which I inherited from my mother as well as our own collection of records from younger days. Then there are the cassettes and then CDs.
Scanning the shelves the visitor will find everything from 60s rock and folk, to ballads and songs from the 40s and 50s, more modern music, opera, soundtracks from musicals, and a selected range of country and western. The last is more dependent on particular artists, like Patsy Cline, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and the Martina McBride CD has a country feel to it too. But country and western is certainly not the dominant genre in our music collection. It’s often one Mick and I differ on. He likes the Dixie Chicks. I can’t stand them.
A genre that is almost entirely missing is classical and instrumental. Mick will occasionally listen to classical music. I never do, mainly because it doesn’t have words to sing along with. I’m very much a word person and take a lot of notice of lyrics. One artist that features in a lot of the records and CDs is Elvis, as I have always been a huge Elvis fan. Certain other artists have multiple CDs in our music collection like Anthony Warlow, Marina Prior, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Billie Holliday.
In other words, what people see when they look at our music is a wide range of music styles and tastes. What sort of music is predominate in your house?
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