One of the best things about some friendships is when you discover that you love music and use it for communicating to each other. Many times my music collection has been influenced by a particularly intense friendship and the resultant sharing of all the songs that are important to us. I have made many tapes and cds for others, helping them along in new music discovery and am glad that others do it for me as well. I love that I can trace friendships through my music collection, and that songs that were introduced to me by others can find their way into my story as well. Clearly there are songs and bands that you discovered first, the old friends which were yours before anyone elses. But it’s also delightful to be influenced by others, to have yours eyes opened to more. Eddi Reader is an example of what I am talking about, music that I wouldn’t have delved so deeply into were it not for a good friend, and music that reminds me of times we spent together in my car escaping from conferences. It’s good to have music like this in the collection.
When I first heard a cd of Eddi’s songs I was with a friend and we couldn’t talk, couldn’t play the card game, couldn’t do anything except sigh at the sadness of it all. Every song felt like an epic emotional journey, and it’s hard to just pick one of those. Postcard is just another example of a beautifully crafted song. Any song where you can hear the hands moving up the guitar strings is a winner in my book. But it’s more the beauty of the singing and the ability of this song to have me staring out of the window in deep thought that I love.
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