See I don't think I'd do desert island very well, because I just need people. Much as I'd like to be on one for a break away from everything, I'd miss people too much.
So having given this a lot of thought, I'd pick discs that reminded me of all the people I love (or loved) & good times we had together and at different periods of my life.
1)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & friends from Volume II, 1989, featuring many artists including Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Bruce Hornsby, Michael Martin Murphey, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Chet Atkins, Marty Stuart, the Carter Family...classic American traditional music, reminding of me of my roots & my family, and great for singing along (
we sang the songs of childhood / hymns of faith that made us strong / ones that Mother Maybelle taught us / hear the angels sing along)
2)
Nightswimming - REM...a song that always calls to mind, for me, maybe 2-3 hot Kansas summers when my mom, my brother, friends and me would go swimming in the evenings at a nearby lake until it got dark & the moon was out. Long gone happy times before a lot of bad stuff happened to our family. But back then we were all still together & still having a happy family life.
3)
The Girl from Ipanema - Astrud & João Gilberto & Stan Getz...Reminds me of all the craziness of my university days when I made friends with a lot of Brazilians. And I ended up going to Rio de Janeiro when I was 21 years old to visit a friend there for a month over Christmas & New Year's. It was my first international trip (not counting crossing the border in Mexico) & 21 being a perfect age to be in Rio. My love of tropical everything goes back to that trip. A hot, green New Year's Eve & fireworks off the hotels all along the long strip of beaches, including Ipanema, along which my friends & I walked until dawn.
4)
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - as covered by the Grateful Dead...One of the good memories involving my first husband, who was a huge Grateful Dead fan, although I think the memory stems from before we actually married. We had visited a winery town in Missouri for a long weekend & had rather a good night in the bars...worst hangover ever the following day...and when this song came on the cassette tape as we were driving home - well it was just so appropriate & we laughed our heads off.
5)
Moon River - Audrey Hepburn - the Andy Williams version was DH's & my wedding processional song. Both my mother & I loved this song, and the movie it came with (Breakfast at Tiffany's) - so it also reminds me of her. The lyrics really seem to fit DH and me also.
6)
Good Intent - Rosanne Cash - from her album of mourning
Black Cadillac over her parents. Loss being as big a part of life as is love, but sometimes we don't always have adequate language for loss - this album is about as good as it gets. "Seeing behind the darkened veil" but also moving on with good intent to a new place you belong - your "true happy home".
7) Bowl of Oranges - Bright Eyes - Great stream of consciousness at the beginning, moving on to the profound. We are individual fragments of an overall whole that is beautiful.7)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack...because DH thinks he merits more than one song on this list, and I agree. And that's how we roll.
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One Love - the Playing for Change version, featuring Keb' Mo', Manu Chao & other musicians from around the world - All those beautiful international voices joining together. A song that brings us full circle.
Luxury item - a good bed
Book -
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
