My Life as a Country Song – Songs About Me, Trace Adkins
It’s songs about me, and who I am. Songs about loving and living and good hearted women and family and God.
The year is 2003. After an epic college roommate fail, a new girl moves in to make the room fully occupied again. Named Lynde, she is – interesting, to say the least. Certainly not your typical Grove City College student. She begins talking to me and our other roommate, Brittany, getting to know us. When the subject of music came up, she revealed that her primary musical preference was Country music.
Brittany and I had the same reaction. Country?! Well, I guess Lynde did grow up on a farm, so songs about tractors and cows and things like that must be pretty close to home. But she insisted that was not the reason and that, if we just gave the music a chance, we’d learn to love it. Well, we had little choice but to give it a chance because it was all she played in our room!
After some time I started listening to the lyrics and realized that these were real stories about real people. Nothing you had to read into. Nothing you had to listen to ten times to know what the lyrics were. Songs about love, life, friends, etc. The more I listened, the more I learned to love it – so much so that Lynde and I began to go weekly to a country line-dancing club. What a change!
A few years later I was listening to country radio – by now, the primary preset on my car radio – and a song came on that I had never heard. It was about a man on a plane talking to his neighbor about how he sang country music. His neighbor had a similar reaction to mine, but agreed to come to the concert if he had time. When he got there he realized that country music – “It’s songs about me, and who I am. Songs about loving and living and good hearted women and family and God.”
My life as a country song had begun in that room in 2003, and I hadn’t even realized it!
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