Everyone knows how a song casts you back to a specific moment. When memory fails, remember a song to recall an exact point in time. If there is no song, I can’t remember it; I have a jukebox soul. Chronologically stringing these memories together is a song line.
11.05.2006
April 1971: BREAD - "If"
Because this song moved slower than frozen molasses, it gave me plenty of time to really listen to the words. For the first time, I noticed that song lyrics could be poetry, or what I thought of as poetry at a young age. 31 years later, Dolly Parton would give this song a lively bluegrass arrangement, and turn it into the heartbreaking lovely song it so tried to be in the first place. She even kept the wah-wah guitar!
Dolly's cover of "If."
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