I ended up interviewing both of my parents (separately) for this. The interviews started with the same question and ended up going in two different directions, but there were some interesting commonalities and, although I won’t be going into it here, I got some fascinating insight into the lineage of my own relationship with music. I started out by asking about their first memories or experiences of music. My Dad talked about listening to the music that his parents listened to, mostly Rock and Protest music. He mentioned artists like Simon and Garfunkel, Peter Paul and Mary, Carol King and Roberta Flack. As we got further into the interview he talked more about what drew him to certain songs and he said that lyrics were are what really draw him into songs. I’ll get into that more in just a moment, but the following video is a song by Peter, Paul, and Mary that I think demonstrates beautiful, heartbreaking storytelling with incredible simplicity. This song is a personal favor...