Jack Albrecht
1 min readJun 9, 2023

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That is a great song. I listened to it on repeat many years ago, along with "My Favorite Mistake," "The First Cut is the Deepest" (I like it better than the original!), "There goes the Neighborhood" and #1 (for me at the time), "If It Makes You Happy." Ironically, her most famous song, "All I Wanna Do" is very good but not great on my list.

Crow is such a talented artist. I was so disappointed in another fallen hero, Lance Armstrong, when I read what a total dick he was to her as a partner.

Songs (for me) are like bookmarks in my life. I'd just gotten through my horrible first marriage and was starting a 10+ year legal fight for visitation and then custody of my son (I eventually won) when I got Crow's CD (CDs!).

Crow's music bookmarks that time, along with Fuel, Puddle of Mudd, and several others. Hearing those songs takes me back 20 years like a certain smell takes me back to my mom's kitchen as a kid. My mom who is now losing her battle to Alzheimer's and probably won't be with us another 5 years.

Which brings my comment back to your original subject. Learning to accept that my mom is already going mentally before she goes physically is certainly helping me to accept my own eventual - and hopefully not soon forthcoming - exit from this mortal coil.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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