Songs of my Childhood
I think my earliest memories of music are ones of my father. He did madrigals in high school, acapella in college, and never really lost that love of singing. He has a repertoire of songs that he sings all the time and they are some of my earliest memories with music. I am not really sure what the first one might be so I will talk about the most memorable ones to me. They aren’t necessarily my favorite songs but they are songs he sings very often and have made a deep impression on me. For some of these songs I can’t even listen to the actual recordings by the artists because they don’t match what I hear in my head. My father’s renditions just sound right to me. I am sure I will be hearing these songs in my head for the rest of my life. Sweet Baby James by James Taylor is a song that has been constant in my life. It is about a young cowboy going to sleep alone with his cows in the wild west. While this whole song is memorable for me, what I want to highlight is Taylor’s description...