The other day my son asked if I had heard the new song called Sweet Home Alabama. Hearing in my mind the opening chord of Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic song (..."turn it up"), I said that the song was probably 20 or more years old. He assured me he heard a new song, possibly a cover of the original I was thinking, and I told him I'd keep an ear out for it.

Keep in mind; he and mom are Country Music fans, through and through. There are a few songs from that genre I find worthy, so much of it is just background noise to me (see prior posts). When I drive alone, I generally have talk radio on, because my taste in rock n' roll is tough to find on the dial these days. In the '70s it was called AOR, or Album Oriented Rock.... The kind of songs that never fit into the stereotypical three minute format found on the Pop music stations (pretty much most of the AM dial in those days). As Billy Joel opined: ....

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