Mood Music

[Oxygenius]

I was just wondering, if you guys write in complete silence or if there's any background music? Favorite albums? If so, who ya' listenin' to?



Og

[Betty W01]

I was just wondering, if you guys write in complete silence

:ha

I have an out-of-work husband, two live-in young adults and one nearly live-in son's fiancee, a phone that never stops ringing and is always answered - even when I'm in the midst of writing - since it may be an interview offer for DH or an editor for me (but is instead 99% of the time one of DD's friends) and a troupe of YA friends trekking in and out of my son's bedroom next door and DD's down the hall 24/7. Writing in silence... I wish!

When I do listen to music, I like Norah Jones, Kenny G, Michael Bolton (I heard that retching noise and I'm ignoring you), some Grateful Dead, contemporary Christian worship music (some faves - Brian Doerksen, Kirk Franklin, Third Day, Twyla Paris, Keith Green) and soundtracks (best ones - A Shot at Glory, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Dance, and A Knight's Tale.)

In other words, when I do write to music, my music taste is eclectic and it depends on the day and the project what I listen to.

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If I'm not answering the #$%^& phone for a daughter who isn't home.

[rtilryarms]

stevens, taylor, tull,
Beatles
Matchbox20
contemporary.
no rap

[maestrowork]

A favorite is "The Secret Garden" -- great for writing one of those moody, romantic or tender scenes.

The "Bicentennial Man" soundtrack. The "1492: Conquest of Paradise" soundtrack. The "Lord of The Rings" soundtrack.

Queen.

An assortment of techno/trance dance mixes.

[stormie267]

Whatever my two teenage sons are listening to when they're home. One likes '60's music and the other likes anything from the late '80's on.

There was a time, for two whole long years, second son loved rap. He kept it low enough for us not to hear the words, but under my feet I felt the steady bass thumping sound. For hours. Tylenol was my friend and companion near the computer.

When I'm blissfully alone, I mostly crave peace and quiet.

[Betty W01]

Having a son who listens to rap music for hours is like living inside a giant heart. Not one of my life's ambitions....

He moved out and I miss him, but I don't miss the bass.

[aka eraser]

Except for arguing with my parrot, I work in silence.

[qatz]

stones, tull, bobbie, cream. i was practicing law and i'd have the stones blasting at earthquake level. made answering the phone an adventure--

"What? What? Oh, hi, Judge! Wait a second!" *stumbles downstairs, turns down music, runs back up* "Yeah, Judge, you still there? Yah, I'm all right. What was that? Um ... oh, 'Sympathy for the Devil' or something. What's up, Judge?"

Q

ps. I write in silence now; my computer's gone deaf and I gave away the sound system, or lost it in a poker game.

[Betty W01]

She once saw Cream in concert (from about 30 ft. away)!:snoopy


I loooove Eric Clapton!! :clap

[qatz]

so did i, but not as close. clapton is great. miles too. all the masters of the blues. carlos santana.

[rtilryarms]

I worked at Pirates World down here in Dania, FL as a Ride Supervisor from 1970 until it closed I think in '74. On weekends we would double as backstage security for concerts. PW attracted a lot of big names:

Deep Purple
Tull
Chicago
Three Dog Night
Alice Cooper
BST
Grateful Dead
Steely Dan
Johnny Winter

I saw them all, remember little and liked a few.

rt

[Betty W01]

YOU SAW THE GRATEFUL DEAD?!?

:hail we are not worthy! Wait until I tell my kids I exchange e-mails with someone who actually saw them in person. <sigh> You are sooooo lucky.


And hey, I went to Pirate's World, still have a little silver enameled PW charm bracelet charm. Sometime in 60's, though, so we would not have crossed paths. Small world!

[rtilryarms]

YOU SAW THE GRATEFUL DEAD?!?

Sure did.
But they looked like all the other bands, shadowy silhouettes amongst the swirling smoke. All I remember was they were loud. I had no idea who they were (or any of them). I just enjoyed the prominence of wearing the multi colored striped Pirates shirt (polyester yaach) they handed out so we wouldn't get arrested when we cleaned up the garbage under the bleachers during and after the concert. We used to go under the bleachers every time the cops swept a section. Some of my cohorts just tossed their full pillow cases over the fence lol. I turned mine in, I was sort of the token straight guy, ya know, the designated spokesteen that Officers would talk to for assurances of law and order and celebacy.

[rtilryarms]

Betty,
We may have crossed paths.

I started in 1968 not long after the official opening (It opened illegally without City approval first and got shut down. My Brother and Sister were there from day one (and day one again).

I started on kiddy rides because I was so tiny for my age (15?)

One day, as a joke, they put me on the Steeple Chase.

Now, the Steeple Chase was available to Pirates World only because the ride, 2 people riding strapless on a fiberglass horse along thin mini-rails, had been banned in several States.
The Steeple Chase, originating at Coney Island, at one time resulted in the most lawsuits in Theme Park annals.
The brake system to stop the horses at the end of the ride was not very good so took the largest employees Pirates World could hire to accomplish the task. Two were required in the rain.

So they put me there, small, frail, skinny, wise-ass , big mouth. As a joke, they told me to stop the horses for a while and took out the Polaroids. This was going to be fun!
I stopped it the first tiem, using my body as a wedge and the soles of my feet as the brake. Prior to this everyone sort of ran with it, muscles bulging and jugulars popping out of their necks, eventually slowing it until it stopped. I stopped it with little effort at about the same distance.
Soon I was the Big Show. We held contests to see who could stop the horses in the shortest distance. The big guys could not perfect my method. Instead they would slip and fall, leaving it to me to stop the horses while the riders clutched the reigns white-knuckled for fear they had to go around the treacherous track one more time. Not with me there they wouldn’t!
Soon I was the talk of Pirates World, one of the attractions. The contests continued until one of the big guys got hurt. Stupid big guys! They brought in Engineers and shut the ride down. The Engineers developed a clever solution; they recommended that we fix the broken brakes. After that anyone was able to stop the horses and my 15 minutes of fame was timing down. So I was promoted to Ride Supervisor and had to deal with the older and bigger boys and girls. My rides were:
Steeple Chase
Log Flume
Slide
Slanted House
Classic Cars
Beetle Race
Lover’s Coach.

And of course weekend nights, designated goody two shoes security at the concerts! ROCK ON!

[qatz]

I saw the grateful dead at least twice, quicksilver with janis, cream, bb king, and, uh, i forget. Q

[Betty W01]

cool.


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I've also seen... let's see: Tex Ritter, BB King, John Sebastian, James Gang with Joe Walsh (they played our prom), Newsboys, Supertones, Sanctus Real, Michael W. Smith, Railroad Earth, and Michael Bolton - twice. (I know you're groaning, but I have my fingers in my ears and can't hear you...) :grin

[rtilryarms]

I haven't gone to many concerts since I haev to pay now. But I saw Neil Diamond 5 times in the early '70's, late, 70's late 80's and late '90's about 5 years ago.

Just saw the Eagles Reunion last year.

Met a few famous Actors and Musicians while I worked at a Psycho Hospital. YES I said WORKED!

Gosh, lots of stories

[WordSoup]

I don't listen to much music while writing. Cranking up Queen or Janis while doing housework is another story.

OK - I want to know which one of you ex-hippies went to Woodstock????? :hat

[aka eraser]

I didn't go to Woodstock but I dropped acid before seeing the movie. Does that count?

[WordSoup]

:peace :ha :ssh

If you can't remember the movie, it counts

[biotales]

:peace
If you remember the 60's via the movie.... then baby you weren't there....
The 60's ended by the way in 1965.... then it was 1971....
thats the truth...
Biotales

[Cary]

Yarmy-Who did you meet at the crazy house ??
The best concert I ever saw was ZZ Top headlining with Skynard as their warm up band....awesome !! Best show was Kansas, during their 'dust in the wind' reign.Bad Co gave a spirited show, Its amazing they could finish... never SEEN so much weed!!! :hat ..I didnt even smoke an left blasted!! What I would like to see END however, is the 'band reunions', where the lead singers still think theyve 'got It', when It was gone 15 years ago.I saw Robert Plant on east 57th St the other night.He didnt sound all that bad, but when he started to gyrate all around to one of their faster (sexier) songs....I almost hurled.....Same goes for Billy Squire...sounds O.K, but ruined his image for me, stuffing that extra 30 lbs into leather pants........ohhhhh....I feel faint.....The moral here...know when to give It up!!!! Carybelle

[rtilryarms]

I won't talk about people I met there that are still alive but Keith Moon with The Who visited us a couple of times. He was cool once he became coherent.

He died not long after his last visit

[Cary]

That was par for the course, wasnt It??? In the day?? Filthy rich an majorly incoherant....then dead?? I think that was the order... Caybelle

[Betty W01]

beats filthy rich, dead, then incoherent...

[Cary]

You got that right!!!!!!! C

[qatz]

if you remember the sixties, you weren't there

[maestrowork]

I don't remember the sixties. I wasn't even born. :)

[Cary]

I remember the 6o,s...(born in 1961) But I was enjoyin slip-in-slides, climbing trees an playin doctor.....(swear to God!! Ask my Mom!!) :evil I started young... Carybelle

[rtilryarms]

OK Maia, I know you want to chime in here. Stop playing coy. You are suppressing a story here I can feel it.
Lets have one from your other life. Change the names if you want but I know you got a story here.

Come on, pony up.......


rt

[John Backlund]

I remember parts of the sixties. Pretty good time...except for the 'hippie' crap, even though I almost was one for a period. To this day I can't look at paisley anything without breaking out in a cold sweat.

But, I distinctly remember how utterly amazing it was to watch yourself in the bathroom mirror as you slowly ate a dry peanut butter sandwich, chewing with your mouth open for maximum effect, all the while being 'inspired' by the hit of blotter acid ingested an hour before.

August 23, 1968. Note to self: Hashish, beer, and motorcycles do not mix.

Just two little words: Pink Floyd's Ummagumma.

Guitars, three chord songs,........and the teenage girls who were impressed listening to you play them.

Hitchhiking to Taos and staying in an old church then being used by a group of REAL hippies as a mini-commune. Nice people. But not some of the 'locals', who once tried to 'get' a few of us by driving by and attempting to hit us as we walked on the side of the street, with an open car door.

Pennicillin. Truly a wonder drug. Truly.

See! I remember the sixties.:ack

[sugarmuffin]

I saw the Grateful Dead five times, and remember at least two of them, 'specially Saratoga Springs, 1983.

I usually write in silence. Music usually makes me want to sing along, which can be very distracting.

L

[batyler65]

Okay, before I started :teeth Monster:teeth I had my daughter burn me a special compilation CD (Yes, my characters all have theme music-- don't want to talk about it.)

Anyhow, whenever I wrote, I listened to this CD exclusively. After awhile, it became like white noise -- Something to drown out the other assorted rainbow noises in the house around me. But a funny thing happened. Now that the novel is in the cooling off phase (you know the one before I decide how badly it sucks and how hopeless it all is?) every time I hear one of those songs from the CD my brain immediately starts thinking about those characters and storyline again. And not passively, either -- I'll start thinking, okay the protag needs stronger motivation HERE in chapter so-and-so. I have to force myself to NOT think about them. Talk about your Pavlovian experience.

Barb:ack

[aka eraser]

I'd rather you didn't talk about your Pavlovian experiences Barb. I hate when the drool collects in my keyboard. :ack

[batyler65]

Okay, Frank,
Why are you drooling in response to my Pavlovian experience?

Enquiring minds want to know... on second thought, no we don't. :smack

[aka eraser]

It's the word itself Barb! That P-word! I read it...I hear a bell...and the dang drool just starts.

I guess I should have paid less attention in Psych class and more in Journalism. :ack

[John Backlund]

....But I digress.

No, on the rare occassion that I write something, I don't listen to music of any kind. As proof, I have no music playing now, even as I write this post.

[Cary]

Your a funny guy John..;) I remember my Mom talking about having those same experiences...I just caught the tailend being born in the sixties....Damn! Carybelle

[maestrowork]

I find 70s porn music pretty stimulating, especially when I'm writing a love scene. :grin

[John Backlund]

Carybelle spoketh thusly:I just caught the tailend being born in the sixties....Damn! Carybelle

I'm not all that fond of the sixties, and I usually have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, back there even to reminisce. Not that I didn't have a good time, mind you...but from the vantage point of the present.......it's become evident to me that it sucked in many ways, even the romanticized, mythical, idealogically top-heavy notion of it smells badly to me now. I suppose I've become just another bitter old hippy burn-out myself. That might explain my overt Republican-ness these past thirty years. Revenge!

I wouldn't waste a lot of energy thinking that you missed something particularly spec.......um...wait a minute, now that I'm thinking about it, the seventies were worse than the sixties for sure....uh..and without question, the eighties were an unspeakable horror, what with disco and all. The fifties were constructed entirely smoke and mirrors, too. Darn! I'm in a corner on this one I fear.

I still like pre-falsetto/disco Bee Gees a lot, though.

Never mind.:gone

[Cary]

"Dear bitter hippie burnout"...Ha! I dont know, I saw what was goin on around me, Mom an Dad hosting parties every weekend, they even put beer in the bacon, for Gods sake....Said 'It improved the flavor....sure. They 'looked' like they were havin a good time! Mom looked real cute in her low rise bellbottoms, with the butterflies embroidered on the cuffs.I remember thinkin, 'Damn! Thats one hot Momma, I got there' !!! (long before the neighbors husbands did...) Ha! Just wanted to follow in her footsteps...:party Carybelle

[LiamJackson]

Cary, there's a hell of a story layered in that last post of yours. :peace

[aka eraser]

I agree Liam.

[Betty W01]

One needs a working sound card in one's computer in order to be able to listen to anything... <sigh> Where is my little IT brother when I need him? :shrug The silence is here is starting to get to me. No DH, no kids... it's too quiet. Eerie. Like someone is waiting to sneak up on me. Spook, where are you, girl? I need some back-up!

Meanwhile, I just ordered some new CDs. Kathryn Scott's new solo album, a CD of South African worship music, Jeffrey Camp's latest CD, and the Ultimate Kenny G. Can't wait to get them. Now, if only Bro comes over to fix the darned sound card situation...

[spooknov]

Boo!!! Gotcha. Hehe.

My music list consists of:

Evenesence
Matchbox 20
Godsmack
Metallica
Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie

And I listen to two rock stations. I'm not really sure how MB20 fits in with the rest of my musical tastes. But they're definately a favorite of mine.

What can I say, I'm a hardcore chick.

[spooknov]

I'm all excited cause I may get to go see G-Smack and Metallica in concert this summer. I hope! I hope! The last concert I went to was Metallica. Yeah baby! Candlebox opened for them. Now that's music!

Note: Sorry about the double commentary earlier. Computer glitch.

[aka eraser]

Betty my soundcard went AWOL for 2 months. I was disconsolate. I have over 2,000 tunes on my hard drive and hated having to resort to the whims of a DJ on the radio.

Last night, a techno-geek online friend INSISTED I finally try what he'd been urging me to do since it happened.

Right click on My Computer
Select Properties
Click on Devices
Highlight Sound thingy
Click Remove (<---this is where I had been balking)
Assure computer you do indeed want to remove
Restart computer

During the restart the computer hunted for, and found, the "removed" card and re-installed the drivers. All automatically. It was fun to watch.

Next thing I knew: BOOM! Windows' thunderclap nearly knocked my chair over.

My sound was back. :clap

Now, I'm not exactly recommending you try the same thing but it worked for me.

[Betty W01]

Frank, I'll pass that info on to my tech guy (AKA little brother) when he shows up again. Whenever that is. Grrr.

The downside of free help is - you get what you pay for, when it decides to arrive.

[Yeshanu]

Do I even belong here?:o

Right now I'm listening to five CDs on my handy dandy stereo (but maybe I should try the sound card thingy repairo trick on my computer, too). Two bagpipes, two celtic, and one French Canadian folk.

This is unusual. Usually it's a mix of Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Howard Shore. (One of these things is not like the other...) Maybe I was born 300 years too early...

The only concerts I ever went to were Olivia Newton-John :p and the Nylons :clap I was more into ballet, opera, and symphony orchestras. Still am, except for the opera bit (that was mostly my ex...)

[spooknov]

Yeshanu. I love classical music. I was always voting for musical plays in HS drama. Drove everyone nutz. I took violin for three years, too. Nothing soothes the soul like Bethoven or Mozart. I have gotten some of the strangest looks while out driving around in my sporty car blaring the classical station. I so do not look like a prim and proper classical type.

[Betty W01]

Ruth, on my CD rack are:

5 Gregorian chant collections (very soothing on stressful days)
3 Kenny G
5 Michael Bolton
1 Simon & Garfunkle
3 Cat Stevens
1 100% Funk collection (music to clean by)
1 Beach Boys
1 A Shot at Glory soundtrack
2 LOR soundtracks
1 Lord of the Dance soundtrack
1 Celtic hymns
4 Third Day
1 Charlotte Church
1 Lynard Skynard
6 classical collections
the complete Handel's The Messiah
5 Twila Paris
and about 40 worship CDs by various groups and individuals.

so, it takes all kinds...

I'm on the geeky side of the music aisle.

[maestrowork]

Michael Bolton. Ugh!

[aka eraser]

As I mentioned earlier in this thread I don't listen to music while working.

But in the evening, when kicking back chatting etc. it's:

Led Zepplin
The Yardbirds
Otis Redding
Solomon Burke
Bob Seger
Audience
Evanescence
Four Tops
Van Morrison (mostly his '67-'77 stuff, when he cooked)
Lucinda Williams
Tracy Chapman
Joan Armatrading
The Corrs
Indigo Girls
The Pogues
Los Lobos
Wet Willie
The Allman Brothers
Little Feat
Matchbox 20
Dire Straits
Roy Orbison
Ray Charles
Dusty Springfield
Jann Arden
Loreena McKennit
Great Big Sea
Spirit of the West

And.....Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Peggy Lee, Brook Benton, Jo Stafford, Betty Everett and several dozen others. :)

[Yeshanu]

Empress Betty,

I'll see you in the geek aisle. Have you tried Taize yet? It's somewhere in between the Gregorian Chants and the contemporary praise music.

And why only two LOTR soundtracks? BLASPHEMY! Your collection is not complete... :teeth

(Just kidding...)

Ruth

[Betty W01]

And why only two LOTR soundtracks? BLASPHEMY! Your collection is not complete...

Lack of dollars... I will get it, honest! Don't hurt me...

[maestrowork]

Betty, Enya is good for moods when writing as well. That's geek-to-geek talk.

[Betty W01]

Thanks, Ray, I'm sure you mean well :teeth but after your rude comment about Michael Bolton, why on earth should I trust your musical advice? I already know your culinary advice sucks... this from a guy who cooks and eat bugs? Not that I don't love ya and all :) , but really!! :eek

Michael B. is good-looking, has a fantastic voice, sings soul music, seems to be a nice guy whose private life is just that (what a refreshing change from most musicians and singers today!), supports many great charities, and has even written a great song with Dylan ("Steel Bars") at D's request (kind of a singer's medal of honor, ya know?)! What's not to like?? :snoopy

I've gone to two of his concerts and would go to another if he'd come back to my part of the US. :jump

[Yeshanu]

Betty,

Would it help matters at all if I put in another vote for Enya?:p

After all, you already have at least one song (unless the Fellowship soundtrack is the one you don't have...:eek

Wish I had your way with smileys... The ones here are becoming rather limited. Anyhow, Enya is seriously cool.:thumbs

Ruth

[Betty W01]

Oooh, another victim... errr, fan of my smileys! Go to the "'Fess Up, Betty" thread in Office Party (at p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm17.showMessageRange?topicID=94.to pic&start=1&stop=20 (http://p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm17.showMessageRange?topicID=94.to pic&start=1&stop=20)) and to the "Resource Du Jour: Best Smileys" post in Networking: Sharing Leads (at p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm10.showMessageRange?topicID=181.t opic&start=1&stop=20 (http://p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm10.showMessageRange?topicID=181.t opic&start=1&stop=20)) and learn how to use them yourself, for fun, entertainment of your peers, profit, and entire hours wasted. Oh, wait, scratch the "profit part". The rest apply. Have fun!

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/5/5_1_119.gif

[Betty W01]

Ruth, I'll take your suggestion under advisement. Ummm... do you eat bugs? Just checking...

[maestrowork]

Betty, tsk tsk! If it's any consolation to you, Enya doesn't eat bugs (I don't think).

[Yeshanu]

Betty,

I eat at church potlucks. (Ah, the life of a minister...)

I have no idea what I ate last night...:lol

It didn't seem to taste like bugs, though.

Ruth

[Yeshanu]

On further thought...

It (the casserole) was greyish with long stringy things in it...

Could they have been worms?

Just trying out a new smiley: http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/mutley-ani1.gif (http://<!--EZCODE)

Ruth

[Betty W01]

:jump I LOVE church potlucks. Great food and no cooking on my part. Wheee!

At the one last week, there was pecan pie and lemon bars and grilled hamburgers and fresh fruit salad and.....

excuse me, I'm hungry... :gone

[Betty W01]

Still no more Enya, but the CDs I ordered came. I like the Kathryn Scott CD a lot, especially her duet with Brian Doerksen (one of the best song writers I know). The South African one may have to grow on me. Haven't listened to the other two yet. I still have to listen to them through earphones (no sound card still) and I find them too uncomfortable for long-term use. AND I apparently can't write resturant reviews and listen to music at the same time.

Actully, after today's battle, I'm not sure I can write them without listening to music. I'm thinking "Taps" might be fitting right about now...http://www.emotipad.com/artists/fool/emoticons/rog.gif

[maestrowork]

Betty, have you listened to Josh Groban yet?

[Betty W01]

Josh Groban? No, what does he do? Sing? Play? What style is he?

[Yeshanu]

Betty,

Sings.

Classical.

I think he's about 21 or so, and he's got the most unbelievable voice...

By all means, give him a listen.

Ruth

[Betty W01]

Here's some news of the weird for you... never heard his name before today, on here, then was reading the newspaper a few minutes ago, and one of the obit ads used the words from one of his songs as a poem! Weird...

[maestrowork]

Betty, come out from under the rock.

Give Josh or Enya a try, you'll like them -- a couple recommendations: To Where You Are, You're Still You, and You Lift Me Up. Beautiful songs -- very spiritual, if you ask me.

I figured if you like Charlotte Church, you'd LOVE Josh Groban. He and she sang a duet once (The Prayer?).

[Betty W01]

DH pulled out an Enya CD he had (!! - he's a constant surprise) and I guess I don't really care for her in large amounts. I don't care for large amounts of Charlotte Church, either, but I will look for a Groban CD at the library tomorrow. I'll let you know how it sounds (the accoustics under my rock are not so hot today...)

[John Backlund]

Mannheim Steamroller.

[Cate]

I only listen to music if I am writing fiction.
(mostly because it just doesn't matter-I am not a fiction writer!)
Some stuff:
Tori Amos
Dead Can Dance (no, it isn't thrashy)
Vivaldi
Peter Gabriel
Dido
Any irish music
Vast

No rap--no way.
Being from the city, country doesn't do it for me either.

Also like blues and jazz, as long as the jazz isn't too filled with dissonance.
Cate

[LiamJackson]

Groban has a voice that can only be described as a miracle of nature. I'm an old rocker. The last concert I attended, last year, was Metallica. But I can listen to Groban for hours. Simply amazing.

[ChunkyC]

I have both Groban's CD's. The kid is astonishing. He's now 23, but was 'discovered' at around 17 by David Foster.

Betty, one of the songs from his first CD, 'To Where You Are', has to be the most emotional vocal performance I've ever heard. I think of you every time I listen to it. :hug

[maestrowork]

I sang "To Where You Are" at a memorial service about a year ago. It was a very touching experience. Not a dry eye.

[Betty W01]

I'll have to go find that song.

My cry-every-time song was sung by Michael W. Smith - "I Hear Leesha". It was on one of the cassettes that Lisa passd on to DS#1 when she went off to USNA and he dug it out the night after we got the news, put it in my tape player, cued it up, and then told me to go home and listen to it, after I dropped him off at school. "We should have someone sing it at her funeral," he said. And he was right. It was perfect.

A friend of ours who was a voice major in college substituted Lisa's name in it and sang it for us the day of her funeral. It was the thing that finally made DD#2 (7 at the time) break down and cry, the first time she heard it, after keeping it all inside for a whole week.

I'll let you know what I think of Groban's song, after I find it.

[spooknov]

Betty, Allison Krauss (sp?) was on CMT last night and I thought of you. She was doing a concert.

[Heartsease]

This is an old thread but I have my list of workin music. Even the dogs know my music.

Allison Kraus
Tony Rice
Mark O`Connor
Enya
Secret Garden
David Lanz
Yanni, yeah I know but I LIKE his stuff
Lorena Mckinnet
Sarah Brightman
Vivaldi, esp the four seasons suite
Garth Brooks

LA

[unfabulousxox]

I like silence when I write, lets me think.