I think the first decade was best. The one when music was just born. Back then everything was folk music, passed down from one person to another. Of course no one remembers that one. It must have been a magical time. There were no definitions, labels, genres, or restrictions then, describing what it was or where or to whom it could be performed. It was just mankind taking his very first steps into a larger and more fascinating world of communicating with those around him in that very special way.

I wonder what prompted it all. I tend to think it might have been our curiosity and perhaps imitation of how other creatures on the planet communicated with each other. I wonder who was the first Johnny Appleseed to have sung or whistled the recognizable pattern of tones and got this big crazy ball rolling.

I know, in the vast scheme of my puny, measly, life on the planet, what does it matter, who sang, hummed, whistled or grunted the first musical tones. It's just that, with the way we've wrenched and twisted it for decades and centuries and used it and perverted it, it would be nice to hop on a way back machine to see who if any one person started it all and how it all began. Hey, can I help it? I'm a history freak.

If I don't see ya in the future, I'll saw ya in the pasture.