Music to Die Bye

When I grew up I loved music. I sang all day and fancied myself an undiscovered rock and roll star. The truth was I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket with a lid on it. I was accepted into church choirs because lets face it-they didn't want to turn ya down but when they heard how off key I was,I was actually ask to leave the Baptist choir in Edgewater Md.I was devastated really.
I was such an active busy kid and teenager that although I listened to the tunes and of course knew the main stars who sang them,most everything else escaped my knowledge. I got to play the radio when I was driving,hear tunes at dances but never bought records or even 8 tracks when they came out.
I was born in 1945,I am a genuine Baby Boomer --I am writing this memoir in the year 2009 and it is latter June now.
When my mother passed away Gloria Christine Campbell Green> In the weeks leading up to her passing she started singing. I never heard her sing in her life except in church from the pews. Her Repetoir was vast too and she know most all the words. She was like in a sedated condition and not concious when she sang either--unless she was fooling everyone with desire to sing. She had a really nice voice too.
Mom sang right up till the day she died.
I am the oldest son and am home disabled,my name is Eric Nelson Green and I am presently 63. I have had a rebirth of sorts regarding music. It is like I am discovering it for the first time. I mean I am listening to specific performers,reading about them and finding music that I personally really like.I appreciate music a lot and am filling sometimes boring hours ,hours when I dont feel well with uplifting songs that bring joy to my heart and get me going mentally in turn making listless days joyful.
My brother Ron recenly passed and he was a guitar player and a singer of songs his whole life. There was one song he played from a man named John Prine--was called Paradise--about a town in Kentucky Prines family visited when he was a lad. The town was taken over by a coal cpmpany that practiced strip mining.They scrape away the top of the mountain to get to the coal and the fill dirt fills up the valleys and the once beautiful area is now ravaged.
I visited John Prines song on UTube and through it discoverd many more songs by the incredible folk singer John Prine. Mr. Prine did duets with some folks of note--I heard them and discoverd yet more incredibly talented people people like The wonderful Iris Demente and others who have brought a huge about of joy into my waining life.
I of course love the hymn amazing grace--and prefer the one done to bagpipes and another by a lady performer whose name eludes me presntly.I discovered another singer today who is a friend of John Prines--I think its Steve Gardener anyway the guy is terriffic and has some great sports songs about the Cubbies.
Music is good medicine to all reading this. Do Ya want to smile? Put on some music,investigate new people and read about them-there is so much out there that is wonderful and fresh and fun--wholesome.
More remembrances later from the Codgerman---------Rick Green