Ohhh.. Ann(ie) You were doing so good at making me laugh. Now you've gone and made me cry. I feel douped. ;-)

No, seriously... wow! That was a beautiful love song. That's why you love it. It takes you through a relationship. It has enduring love. It shows a relationship growing and maturing. You're a romance writer, girlfriend. I'd be concerned if you didn't get choked up.

Now I have a small confession... Even though I'm mostly a hip-hop and R&B kinda gal. I mostly just love music in general. So I even like a lot of country and western songs that I hear. I like the twang. I like the story telling in the songs. I'm a lyrics girl and a good story will get me every time. So country music works for me on a lot of levels.

So, even though you made me cry today, it was all good. ;-)

Gwyneth

I hate that song. Now I'm going to hear it in my head all day.

If I fail my final today, it'll be all your fault.

The cooountry muuusic...is calling yooooou...

There's some country I like--generally the old school stuff about drinkin' and cryin' and that midnight train whinin' low. Or being crazy for feelin' so lonely. That stuff.

My Grandpa was a big country music fan so when I was little he used to buy me cowgirl outfits and country records for kids. Which I listened to, over and over. :-) Hey, I was seven. Mickey and Goofy singing old Roy Rogers songs was perfectly acceptable.

It's not my usual thing, country, but I can listen to it.

I listen to country music. There. I admit it. I prefer british glam but have a wide variety in me. I have a special weakness for old school and blue grass. My mom is a Queen and Hall & Oats and Eagles woman and my dad was about the same(they fought over the Queen albums when they got separated not the kids). I wasn't exposed to a wider variety until went to high school really (I am NOT counting NKOTB - if you don't know what that is, I'm not telling). I went to Rolling Thunder which is a Memorial Day Demo in DC every year for bikers and I heard Billy Ray Cyrus (Millie's Dad) sing "Some Gave All" acapella after the rain had blown the equipment (my poor brother is in the music video). Moving. Started listening to alot around that time and still will turn it on when I'm cleaning the house or doing some other chore. I'll even put in a Dolly or Loretta CD when I paint. Aside from the fact that I can sing it and not sound too much worse than the original, they tell good stories. I am a sucker for a good story. Harper Valley PTA, Devil Went Down to Georgia, Thunder Rolls, Jolene amd that Tim McGraw song all tell stories, and since we are romantics here, they effect us emotionally.

I think Gwyneth and Pure got to the heart of why this song just socks me right in the heart. The idea of a love that begins in childhood and then matures to the real thing? I want to write one of those, actually.

Sorry, Dee. (Ok, not too much.)

Roy Rogers will always be remembered for his restaurants...

That's a beautiful song. I love Tim McGraw. I grew up with a daddy who absolutely loved country music and a mama who sang the blues. Music was a constant in our house and you were just as likely to hear Pink Anderson, Patsy Cline or Aretha. A while back I interviewed Bradley Walker, an up and coming bluegrass singer (the boy is FIERCE--read the article under Freelance on my website), he sounds like a mix of George Jones and Merle Haggard, and he's only 27. Anyway, he couldn't believe I knew all the words to 'The Great Speckled Bird.' That was one of my daddy's favorite songs.

Oh that song...the first time I heard it I cried and cried. I was in the car driving and it was at least 10 years ago when it first came out. It's a great song.

But I agree. Country music is not my thang. It pretty much drives me insane.