Blog 2971 – 12.19.2023

A Fire I Can’t Put Out

Moses, who had run away from a murder charge in Egypt and was hiding out tending his father-in-laws sheep in the wilderness, marveled when he saw a burning bush that could not be consumed, a fire that could not be extinguished. Some they say never know such fire, yet those of us who have and continue to be warmed by such memories understand the lyrics to George Strait’s song very well.

In The Blues Brothers movie, a classic and one of my favorites, the band gets a gig at a roadhouse where the rowdy patrons expect them to play only country-western songs. John Bellucci has but one in his repertoire “Rawhide” the theme song of the nineteen-fifties western TV series by the same name. To minimize the beer bottles being thrown at the screened gage the band is performing in, the one song is repeated over and over and Bellucci does it so well. As a teenager I rebelled against the country music my parents loved and made rock ‘n rock my music of choice. I used to joke that “Country music will rot your brain.”

Over the next several months you will see that many of the songs that I chose to do karaoke style recordings of are country-western songs.

Glen Campbell once sang that he knew Jesus before he was a superstar and Barbara Mandrell sang that she was country when country wasn’t cool. I’m not sure that Jesus ever was a superstar or that country ever was cool, but they definitely started a fire that cannot be put out.

Call them blessed, fortunate, or just lucky who have a song in their hearts and a fire that still burns in their mind to soothe and to keep them warm on cold nights.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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A Fire I Can’t Put Out