The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46060   Message #685038
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
07-Apr-02 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Musical Career Regrets?
Subject: RE: Musical Career Regrets?
And you're right, Jeri. I originally typed "every person's life is a story worth telling." In all the years that I've written songs, I tried to create a musical scrapbook of family and friends, their stories, successes and mistakes that I thought were worth sharing and remembering. I've always encouraged people to treasure family stories. And when the spirit moved me, I've written songs about things that have happened in someone else's family. After all, isn't that the truest definition of folk music (no, let's not get in to that..) songs about every day life? We've all got enough stories to fill a hundred books or CDs.

Jerry

nice name...