There’s an old song – What are you Doing the Rest of Your Life? – from a movie called “The Happy Ending”. It was released the year I graduated from high school – 1969. About that time I was wondering the same thing. What WAS I going to do with the rest of my life? […]
She Let Herself Go is the name of a country song about a woman who was a dutiful housewife and worked hard to take good care of her husband and their home. Somewhere along the way, he decided he didn’t love her anymore, told her one day, and left. The song suggests that he was […]
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 […]
By now you know I love music. These days, country music is my preference but I have a pretty broad base of music knowledge from many kinds of music – including the movies. One song I was reminded of was from the 1977 movie “Foul Play.” The name of it is Ready to Take a […]
I spend a good deal of time in Charleston, South Carolina. My cowboy is down there so I make that trip on a fairly regular basis. There are some exceptionally lovely roads there, especially Highway 61. Spanish moss hangs on the trees as it sways in the gently breezes over the two lane path towards […]