So me and the boys are flying down the highway in my truck.
[Editorial aside: there is little better, men, than being able to type that sentence and have it be true.]
Like I said, we're flying down the highway in my truck. My full-sized pickup truck, to be more precise. Me. And my boys. The sun is low over the trees on the distant Kansas horizon, and we're sweaty and tired after a long day of man stuff. I turn up Blues Traveler's "Crash Burn." This is good, driving-with-the-boys-in-a-truck-like-real-men-do music.
So then Caleb says to me: "Dad, this sounds like old-timey music. Like from the 1990's."
Got that, everyone? Richard Marx, Celine Dion, and Melissa Etheridge are old-timey. Caleb may actually be more right than wrong, now that I think about it.
Still, I prefer to think of some music as timeless. Which is why we were listening to Blues Traveler, and why Caleb has an Oscar Peterson CD in his bedroom, and why I'm hoping all those violin (read: fiddle) and piano lessons naturally turn into a folk/jazz/blues ensemble when the boys are older. But until that day, here's some old-timey music for your Monday:
Posted by Woodlief on June 02, 2008 at 11:02 AM
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Love me some Blues Traveler!
Sad that we already call this "old music"!
This was one of the bands I used to go see while in college. Guess 38 is old now :-(
I knew back then that this would be "classic" eventually.
Posted by: Jim Ratajski at June 2, 2008 12:20 PM
I think have you beat with my "old-fashioned" (according to my 5 year-old) telephone on my computer desk. It has a CORD- have you ever heard of such a thing? I feel like I've been paid back for asking my mother (born in 1956) what things were like when she was a kid "in the Little House on the Prairie days." Now we're even.
Oh yeah, I bought the "old" phone about a year ago at Walmart. That's a big antique shop in our area. Ever heard of it?
