This one is a day late, sorry lads. We had a couple of short, quick power outages on Sunday night that managed to fry my motherboard…where the fully edited version of this piece is saved. Oops. That’s what I get for using a cheap surge protector. Thankfully she’s still under warranty, so I was able to get my tower fixed today once the weather became less of a hazard to the IT guy. It’s kind of a short section today, so I hope the wait doesn’t make it too anticlimactic.
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SO! Back to the playlist!
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I mentioned the wistful love songs earlier. They’re a staple of the genre. One of the big complaints about modern country for a while was the lack of sad love songs. None of these are fully that, but none are unambiguously happy either, reaching for bittersweet more often than overtly saccharine.
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This is easily my favorite love song of all time. The title alone says it all, really. Romantic or not, when you find someone you can share a comfortable silence with without having to fill the air with anything at all, you know that love is a strong one.
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Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter
A song about first love, now a long ago memory. A song about drifting apart, as can happen. A song about a relationship reaching a natural close, through no fault of anyone’s really. This one sometimes makes me stare dramatically into the middle distance. It really hits home with a very specific, bittersweet emotion.
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Just To See You Smile by Tim McGraw
90s Tunes Again. I can never quite put to words what that sound is, but it is distinctive, and it dates some songs very clearly. A song about letting someone go gracefully.
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NEXT TIME: The Songs A Lot of People Yelled About, where we get into some controversy. EDIT: Nope! I Skipped a section! Last time I said it was going to be Ghost Story Time and then accidentally skipped it, so that will be the next post instead. Controversy after that!
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