songs

As I was growing up, I was influenced by my mum's music taste as well as my sisters, although my sister did have a real range of taste in music. She got me into Janis Joplin - like this and Crosby Stills Nash and Young, not to mention Pentangle and Al Stewart's Year of the Cat . Of course I also loved Bob Dylan and David Bowie, and the usual- Carol King and James Taylor. I found some of my old LP's the other day and the memories came flooding back.

My Mum kept playing the same song just before she left my dad and me. It was this Judy Collins song .

It still makes me cry when I listen to the lyrics.
I have very little by way of things to remind me of my mum. My most treasured possession is a tape I have of my sister singing, and my mum talking and laughing with her. When I play it, I close my eyes and can almost be in the room with them.

Music can make you happy or sad. It can lift the soul or overwhelm you with sorrow. Either way, I would never want to be without it.