It’s a snow day for us in West Tennessee and from what I’m hearing, Nashville got a healthy dusting last night as well.
Sleepydad asks a question about music, and being we are the Music City, let’s play along.
I think about this from time to time– in terms of music, literature, television, even philosophy… all things that put a little structure in your brain, that affects how you think about things from that point on.. These are the things you find yourself going back to over and over again, referencing in conversation, using to define some abstraction in your head.. or maybe these are just the experiences of things you reminisce about when you have a little time to think about the old days.
So who would I list as my influences?
Go to his place and see who influenced him.
I guess I’d have to say John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Steve Goodman, The Police, Al Green … Probably a lot more but that’s off the top of my head. (I’m a Sandwich Generation person so that’s why my list is so bipolar.)
Being pretty much your age, newscoma, my list is also quite bipolar
(BTW, “sandwich” generation usually refers to my dad’s the one between the WW2 generation and the boomers. According to pop demographers Howe and Strauss, we are part of the “Atari” wave of the 13th gen - the more famous ‘X-ers’ were of the “Nintendo” wave. But, this only interests me)
Musical Influences (all of these were extremely important to me at sometime in my life):
Otis Redding
Sam Cooke
The Osmond Brothers ![]()
Don Williams
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Iron Maiden
Elvis
The Police
Bruce Springsteen
We all have our definitions, Slarti.
Back on topic, your list is very close to mine.