folk rock!, pop hits! , classical...and country music !  

2/22/2006 8:13 pm Last Read: 3/5/2006 9:28 pm

What about it? Country Music? Well, Its always associated with long hair and cowboy outfit...With the sounds of the fiddle and sometimes banjo and the crying sound of the slide guitar. If it's a pop hit? Then you always heard it being played on your favorite radio stations on an 8 track Pioneer cassete stereo at a Jeepney ride on your way to school...Folk Rock , Who could ever forgot the famous "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens, whom I read was being barred from entering US soil for being a suspected terrorist...(sounds weird to me) When I was a teen-ager, hair was that long to make my guitar playing more convincing to my buddies and especially among the bop bop teenage girls...It's also a way to be more appreciative and noticeable to the usual crushes passing by! At the high school campus when you sit on the corridor's bench to play, can't help to notice schoolmates milling around to hear what's the tune being played. Some of the boys would even butt in to render a song or two at the usual vacant period. Singing along, with some tapping their feet at the beat or tempo. Now with the MP3's and the Windows Media player, the access to songs are more convenient so one can easily learn to play and be adaptable. Unlike in the 70's where in you have to depend a lot on songbooks, the famous Jingle Chordbook(wonder what happen now to the publication)...even the famous songhits at your favorite magazine stand was a monthly necessity. Every individual has a song or a music attached to him/her. Be it a theme song or the usual humming song while taking a bath. It always come and go no matter what. Q: Does music makes the world go round? A: Absolutely Yes! How about you? What's music to you, then? pic**Electic guitar by James Noble-Corbis