27-12-2025, 18:05
It's that time of year when you forget what day it is. LOL! Just remembered it's Saturday. I think ...
Still listening to Chris Rea so it's an obvious choice of artist. Slightly less obvious is that although he was grateful for the money he made from his popular songs, he was absolutely committed to the blues and is quoted as saying "Stony Road (sic) is the album you can pin on my headstone." This was the album realised after having an epiphany during the time he underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and the subsequent long and arduous recovery. If this was 'it' - so to speak - he wanted his daughters to know that their Papa was a bluesman through and through and to leave a legacy as such, with some gravitas, and weight. It follows then that the title track from Dancing Down the Stony Road is the one I'm choosing for today. Again R.I.P. Chris Rea ... the music will live on ...
Still listening to Chris Rea so it's an obvious choice of artist. Slightly less obvious is that although he was grateful for the money he made from his popular songs, he was absolutely committed to the blues and is quoted as saying "Stony Road (sic) is the album you can pin on my headstone." This was the album realised after having an epiphany during the time he underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and the subsequent long and arduous recovery. If this was 'it' - so to speak - he wanted his daughters to know that their Papa was a bluesman through and through and to leave a legacy as such, with some gravitas, and weight. It follows then that the title track from Dancing Down the Stony Road is the one I'm choosing for today. Again R.I.P. Chris Rea ... the music will live on ...
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