Bring your music to open houses. Get it there by any means. What is a candle or cookies cooking and a fire without music!
If you are really into it you could bring the music of the era of the house! Think about how fun that would be as a conversation point. I get a huge lift from music- along with everyone else in the world.
History lesson from Lynne is this. Ragtime, Dixieland, Blues, Jazz all are terms associated with my dad Knocky Parker, Dr.Jazz. He was a grammy nominated piano player. The album was with Big Joe Turner. It was the peak of his music career of over 60 albums. Ragtime was my favorite. He started out as a Light Crust Doughboy in Texas. I’ve been told they were the Beatles of that era in the south. He was born in 1918. They travelled and he plaid accordion if there was no piano. He learned ragtime at age 4 from Blind Lemon Jefferson in Palmer, Texas. That name brings a hush to anyone who knew of his talents. The town was home to the movie with Robert Duvall “Tender Mercies.”
Later we would travel to St Louis and he played at Gas Light square. Friends Trebor Tichner would meet and talk about music. Once I went to Preservation Hall in New Orleans and listened to the musicians jam together. Anyone coming to town was welcomed up to join in the music. When Disneyland opened up in Los Angeles, California they hired my dad to play. Such was a time and history gone by.
Cut to 2008 and see me at the Whiskey listening to www.Her Skeleton. Rock sounds with Chris Pope. If only dad could hear him.
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Travels to St. Louis Mo, or Nashville , Tenn were a special treat in my youth. Places that made me drool with unique homes.
My summers in Texas added to my lust for Historic homes. When other kids were playing sports I was begging my family to stop the car and let me look at this or that home. I would sketch the main components out on lined writing paper. My cousin Rosemary would drive me with her to towns where we could see where relatives grew up around Palmer,Texas, Ennis. We would stop for a Dr Pepper or a snow cone. Wow, those were my drug of transformation. The ice cold joy on top of touring into older homes. Homes can actually make me cry with happiness or a sting of sorrow to one torn down. Windows, doors all carry a music of a bygone era, a sweet syncopation sound that mean love and heaven on earth in historic homes.
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