Since Grayden was an infant, Waylon Jenning's song Luckenbach Texas was the go-to for settling him down if he was crying, putting him to sleep if he was tired, or just soothing him in general. His dad says I sang the chorus to him over and over. When he would not settle in his father's arms, he sang songs from the Highwaymen to him. We have no idea why he loved Luckenbach Texas, it just worked. One night when Graeme was putting him to sleep, he said, "Daddy, play 'bach'".
Graeme says it is his talisman.
Night before last Graeme left his phone playing a list of Waylon Jenning's songs and he went right to sleep. Graeme came back in an hour and took his phone.
I hope he eventually gets hooked on Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristopherson. Country music will never be the same as when the Highwaymen sang. They each had glorious careers as individuals and together were the greatest county music artists in my lifetime.
Pop, last night he was sitting in my arms and we were listening to music. I told him I wanted to change the song and he said "Play Bach, yeah play Bach" So I did.
ReplyDeleteI left this on Facebook, too. But wanted to here as well.
Waylon would be proud
DeleteYoung Grayden has good taste in country music!
ReplyDeleteIt seemed every small town in Texas had a dance hall from the boom times before the depression along with a bar and barbecue. The afternoons at the bar had picking sessions where one could listen for the prices of a beer! The dance halls would have various quality groups from the up and coming, those from nostalgia and others frankly embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteGruene was a few miles from Canyon Lake where we used to do the "snowbird" thing and we enjoyed groups from "Asleep at the wheel", to Chubby Checker and yet to be "Painting lines on the Highway".
Every spring during spring break, the low cost snow birds would be evicted for the party crowd and Willie Nelson along with Merle Haggard would hold court-sadly, spring farming was generally calling by this time and we would have to leave.
Austin was an hour north and PBS had Austin city limits with their Willie influenced country music hosted by Ray Benson and only a half hr to the west was the incomparable Luchenbach.
Here, for a price of a beer , you could spend an afternoon listening to players just pickin' and a grinnin' !
Weekends would have names playing at the dance hall and more Texas swing.
I am so pleased we were able to spend those years savoring the country music I was raised on over KMON Great Falls, Mt.
Now the curse of the lesser pumpkin rests on out neighbours to the south and Canadians no longer have the chance to savour the Country Music that is part of our common heritage.
Blair