I often recall my parents listening to music when I was a child some 30+ years ago. I remember the sounds of the likes of Jim Reeves, Millican & Nesbitt, Peters and Lee, Neil Reid, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers playing on an old record player.
This sort of music held no attraction for me but I lived with a latent fear that when I reached my forties that I would wake up one morning with a desperate urge to track down Jim Reeves' Greatest Hits or something similar.
Fortunately (Sorry Jim) this has never happened. My musical tastes, whilst very varied, have not touched upon the tunes my parents enjoyed. With teenage children I have enjoyed discovering new artists and, in turn, introducing them to some of my music. I am pleased to say that they haven't (often) looked upon my music with the level of disdain that I probably used to all those years ago to my parents, although Jethro Tull almost causes it.
Imagine my surprise the other day when I heard, coming from my child's bedroom, 'Jolene' by Dolly Parton! My mind flashed back all those years to hearing my parents playing the same song.
Fortunately though, there's no sign of Jim Reeves yet!
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