Sunday Song: Remembering

One of my quests for this year is to get back into listening to music again. It has been a long time since I have spent time listening just to listen. Since music has been my job, I go through periods of time when I just cannot listen to anything outside of music therapy sessions. I am missing music at the moment, so I am making an effort to bring music back into my daily way of engaging in life.

I am ripping my CD library onto my computer, and I am rediscovering music that I have loved in the past. I loved the era of burning CDs, and I have lots of "favorites" CDs that I have found in my music library. I pulled out a CD case with "all-time favorites," made in 2007-ish. Curious to see what I loved back then, I popped it into my CD player in my car and have been listening during my commutes.

One of the things that I can say with certainty is that I love much of the music of Garth Brooks.

There you go. The music that I have included of his always makes me smile. so reliving some of his music has been a good thing for me this week. I think one of my favorites is "Nobody Gets Off In This Town." Written by Larry Bastian and DeWayne Blackwell, this song is on Garth Brooks' debut album (named after himself, of course). It makes me giggle every time I hear it, and giggling is a good thing these days.

This week, I've found myself singing along with old favorite songs of all sorts. The major criticism that I get (from non-music therapists, by the way - music therapists understand) is that my playlists jump from mood to mood, tempo to tempo, and from one musical style to another without warning! I love that variety in my music listening, but others do not seem to need that sort of musical stimulation the way I do. So, I will have Fanfare of the Common Man next to Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow next to Someday Soon followed by Pour Some Sugar on Me. I like that sort of music list. - something new all the time - and I usually put familiar lists on shuffle so I really don't know what comes next. It helps me focus on the music in my environment.

The reminders of music that I once loved and still love have been good for my quest. I am enjoying hearing these songs and am transferring them to my favorites playlist on Spotify so I can hear them at work while I am doing notes and non-session work. Gotta love streaming services where all sorts of music is available all the time, but I am still attached to my CD collection.

Speaking of, I have four more CDs to rip from my second book of CDs before I will be starting the next book. I have alphabetized the CD covers in the book and will be replacing the ripped CDs into the book before taking it back upstairs and getting the next book. I am hoping that the next book I take off the shelf will be one of my soundtrack books. I am looking forward to revisiting that music again.

For now, though, I think I will listen to my Sunday Song again. Time to do some giggling... "the high school colors are brown." Fun!

Enjoy your Sunday, all.

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