I was driving back to Columbia early Monday morning. It was 6:45 and I tuned in to my favorite country station. The on air folks are real chatty this time of morning. I am chatty as well in the morning, so I like to listen to the two of them go back and forth. As […]
There’s a country song by Doug Stone called “In a Different Light.†He sings about a woman in his office that sits three desks down from him. He sees her walking in every morning in a business suit and working very professionally during the day. The others don’t seem to notice her but he has […]
I play the piano. I learned as a young girl by listening to the radio and picking out the songs on an old upright piano. That piano was in my parent’s bedroom for the longest time. When we moved, it was on the side porch of our rental home. I learned enough about how to […]
Brooks and Dunn sum it up about how men today work in their song – Hard Workin’ Man. While the man they describe wears a hard hat and is proficient at many labor intense tasks, he’s also use to just getting by financially…in fact, he’s pretty good at it. I guess you could call him […]
I’ll Fly Away is a gospel song with a country flair. It was written by Albert Brumley in 1929 while he was picking cotton in rural Oklahoma. He was thinking about flying away from the hot, dusty cotton fields the day he wrote it. Albert and his singer wife had six children. I can only […]