Midlife’s A Trip

Soulful Saturday–Music That’s Moved Me for Years

Posted on 27. Oct, 2007 by Karen in Reflections

My favorite music is from the mid-60s through the 70s.  My taste ranged from the Beatles to the Supremes, Jimi Hendrix to Elton John.  And you name it–if it came out of Motown, I loved it. 

I don’t know about you but I can usually remember what was going on in my life at the time a particular song came out.  Today, I took a walk down memory lane and listened to some old tunes.   This Saturday’s highlight was "Grazing in the Grass" by Hugh Masekela.  "Grazing in the grass is a gas–can you dig it?" 

That song came out during my freshman year of college.  After much arm-twisting, my mom let me visit a college friend in New York City that summer.   Masekela was playing across the river in Jersey that Saturday I was there.  I just had to hear him.

So my friend and I went to the concert.  Sitting on the grass in a park overlooking the NYC skyline, we joined hundreds of other college kids and took in Masekela’s smooth jazzy tunes—sounds that drowned out the everpresent drone of discontent at the time about the Vietnam War. 

The music still moves me.  Here I sit decades later spending another soulful Saturday listening to "Grazing in the Grass".  Isn’t it sad that thoughts of war still cloud the experience?

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