“Music is what feelings sound like.” [Anon] And the world is full of music! The wonder of it is that each form of music has it’s own beauty. From Country to Classical, they are all wonderful.

It is my own personal opinion that music is created to be enjoyed. Listening to beautiful music with someone special, on a cool crisp November evening, lights down low, with brandy and snuggles to warm you, it just doesn’t get much better than that.

Travel with us as we share a wide variety of music together. How many of our songs can you remember?  Are your favorites mentioned?

We can't talk music in my house without eventually talking "Country". I grew up on Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, John Denver and Roy Clark, just to name a few.

Hee Haw was our weekly entertainment. What a hoot!

My dad's family all seem gifted when it comes to music and their love is Country Music. At some point during all family gatherings, formal or informal, the instruments appear. It doesn't matter if you can play or not, sing or not, everyone gets involved. When you hear the tuning of the instruments, you don't think about it, you just gather round.

Part of the joy of coming from a large family with so many gifted individuals, is the fact you almost always know someone personally "in the business". 

We have our own celebrities in The Family Brown. Little known perhaps in some circles, but a huge hit in our family. Uncle Joe was a big teddy bear with his own large family.  He lived and died on the road doing what he loved to do, surrounded always by family and friends.

The country road is traveled often in well worn cowboy boots.

For Country music buffs, please feel free to check out the history of my 'famous' cousins, The Family Brown.

(*Royal Wave)

Can you imagine the shear volume of memories we share after knowing each other well over 30 years?

During our musical interlude, we reminisced about songs from long ago and decided to play them. If we couldn’t find them on a CD (we have most on vinyl) we found them on You Tube and listened to them in random order as we remembered them. Here’s just a glimpse:

Burton Cummings-both with the Guess Who and his solos, Elton John, Elvis, Rod Stewart and Gerry Rafferty. And as always when discussing classic rock we had to listen to Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California.

Music and memories are often associated with movies. We searched for, and found, some of our favorite musical and live theatre pieces including songs from George Gershwin, and movie sound tracks from Grease, The Sound of Music, A White Christmas and Troy.

We have had the pleasure of seeing some of the best theatre of Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We found many from these as well.

Memories of Miss Saigon included the amazingly authentic sound of a helicopter dropping down right above our heads. We reminisced about the dancing and music in Mama Mia and relived the music of Queen through an interesting plot and amazing light show from We Will Rock You.

I love Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand and Celine Dion’s voices because you can almost hear bells tinkling their sound is so clear.

Together we discovered Barbara Streisand’s and Celine Dion’s duet, Tell Him.

Learning something you didn’t know about each other can be quite thrilling.

As he put away the stacks of CD's we had pulled out I thought I would surprise him with one of my all time favorite opera duets to see if he could enjoy something completely out of his comfort zone. I searched You Tube and had it waiting for him.

The surprise was mine for he not only enjoyed it, but shared with me HIS favorite opera. Who knew?  I've posted them both so you can enjoy them too.

I smiled, and we settled down to share the music with eyes closed, breathing gently so as not to disturb the beauty that surrounded us anticipating the goose bumps as we waited for the harmony of two beautifully trained voices.

Technology is such a beautiful thing when you can have the wonders of the music world at your finger tips. From Country to Classical. What a wonderful journey

I leave you with a few quotes because they seem to fit.

Nancy's Niche: Music is the soul’s nourishment

Joseph Addison: Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Harlan Howard: Country music is three chords and the truth.

Jeffrey Tate: The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Benny Green: A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Billy Gibbons: Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Herbie Hancock: Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

William Shakespeare: If music be the food of love, play on.

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