Music, music, music

Question: What kind of music do you like?

My most favorite, admired, adored, beloved, cherished, dearest, revered music type is church hymns. I love to sing the hymns and the wonderful Primary songs that I learned in my youth. I often use them to get me through something that is unpleasant or difficult or to just lift my spirits on a dreary day.

Now if I want to get my housework done, I love the songs of Broadway, especially Andrew Lloyd Webber's songs. I have a best of CD that really gets work done quickly. Or sometimes it gets me dancing and I forget about working.

I love folk music: John Denver, PP&M, the Kingston Trio, Woody Guthrie songs, the Weavers and so on. They are so inspirational. They sing songs that make you think, often political in nature. I wish we had more of that type of music today.

I love Country Western. Patsy Cline, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Garth Brooks. There are very few artists in the genre that I don't like or would listen to. I love them especially when I am alone in the car. I get to singing along with them and could just see me with a full back up of guitars and a fiddle singing in the Grand Ole Opry. Tee hee.

Blues, not so much. There are some songs I love, but for the most part I do not listen to the blues much.

I love big band era songs. Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and so on. My mother's type of music, which surprises me at times.

Rap is deplorable. Cannot stand listening to it.

Most of the more modern songs I just do not listen to much and do not have a desire to. I do not feel they tell the stories that the older music tells. I also have a hard time understanding them. It seems the beat is faster and they pronounce the words less clearly, so it is hard for me to know what they are even saying.

I must say I have a song running in my head most of the time. Often it is a Primary song or hymn. Often it might be a jingle from a commercial I have heard. Something is always going on there.

Gil plays the guitar, banjo, uke and mandolin. I love the music her performs, which is usually folk music.