Now do you believe in rock and roll? Can music save your mortal soul? I have friends in the sacred music radio business who have reams of testimonials from listeners claiming the right song at the right time saved them physically or spiritually, or was the mechanism of their salvation. I have a note written on a bar napkin handed to me at some show claiming to be from a recent widow given hope to carry on from a song presented at a bar gig. I read Merle Haggard's story and how music led him from being a common criminal to being, well, Merle Haggard. It might be easier to list those not saved by music than those who are.
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