Making Music

Always, there has been music. Mostly thanks to Mom, since Dad admittedly can’t carry a tune in a bucket, although he does love to sing. And whistle. And hum. And burst into very loud song for no apparent reason. But anyway – from Allison running directly from the bathtub to the piano (I was two, people!), to Scott playing drums and guitar, to Kevin singing duets with David Henry in elementary school, to Craig & Kyle singing with Mom in church – there has always been music. Here are some of our favorite musical memories.

• Houston Solution – Opera Edition

• Scott’s songs

• Mom singing Turn Around at bedtime

• Dad singing You Can’t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd and Hello, My Baby

• Aunt Gail singing Consider the Lilies

• David Clark singing Dixie

• Meeting Marshall Tucker and hearing him play piano

• Practicing baptism in the Cedartown pool to Alabama’s Take Me Down on the jukebox

• Caldwell singing I Was Looking Back to See if She Was Looking Back to See…

• Skin-A-Ma-Rink

• JB singing Two Sets of Joneses

• Craig & Kyle’s senior year: Echoes of Grace

• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver concerts

• Ben Miller playing the mess out of our extremely out of tune piano

• In My Father’s Fields by John Cowan

• Randy Travis & George Strait

• Harry Connick, Jr.

• Roberts’ Thanksgivings with singalongs and Mom on pump organ

• Bill’s Music Shop & Pickin’ Parlor in West Columbia

• Kevin on trombone…oh, wait a minute. Is that really a “favorite” memory?

• Mom tripping on the huge tree roots outside the Township after a Jim Brickman concert

• Mom & Craig singing Forgiven

• Craig & Kyle singing Written in Red with Al on piano

• Scott singing and playing Dixieland Delight – or “That Groundhog Song,” as Grandma Roberts calls it

• Wyatt singing Roll On, Daddy...."til you get back home"