Comments on: The 30 Day Song Challenge: Day 7 http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/ Sat, 18 May 2013 10:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Reagan http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-382605 Reagan Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:01:28 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-382605 Jamey Johnson’s “In Color”. It was 2008. Some dude with a large beard had just released a new song that I thought was pretty good. I bought it on iTunes the week of CMA Music Festival, which is where I was. One night at the concerts, this bearded fellow, whom I now recognized as Jamey Johnson, walked out on stage with nothing but an acoustic guitar. He proceeded to captivate anyone whose heart was beating in that stadium by playing just one song, then walking backstage to let the next overblown wannabe rock star walk out, but that entire trip to me is still defined by “In Color”.

]]> By: DC http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-360414 DC Wed, 18 May 2011 23:21:35 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-360414 Rascal Flatts’ “I’m Movin’ On”, sang by the chorus at my high school graduation. Always takes me back to that last day of high school.

]]> By: Scott http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-360016 Scott Tue, 17 May 2011 16:58:21 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-360016 Where Were you When the World Stopped Turning, but also Tim mcGraw’s “Fly Away” reminds me of a funny event from 8th grade. I joined the SADD club. at the end of the school year, we had our banquet and we ended the evening by getting on stage at the school and singing “We Are The World” (my 8th grade year was 1987-88) and as you know the song fades out in choruses. Well no one told us how many choruses to sing! we had people stopping, restarting (me) and basically completely confused LOL. Tim’s song ends of course with Faith (?) telling the girls to “keep going” when they were trying to stop singing.

]]> By: Erik North http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-359674 Erik North Mon, 16 May 2011 17:31:46 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-359674 This goes probably well out of bounds here–but on the evening of September 11, 2001, I wept when I heard Samuel Barber’s “Adagio For Strings” on the radio, as performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein. This piece is America’s unofficial musical work for mourning, and 9/11 was just such a day.

]]> By: Occasional Hope http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-359636 Occasional Hope Mon, 16 May 2011 17:21:20 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-359636 Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning is the only possible choice for me.

]]> By: Zack http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-358615 Zack Mon, 16 May 2011 11:23:22 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-358615 The Glee Cast’s “To Sir With Love”

It reminds me of the last summer my friends and I spent together while I was still a High School kid, and reminds me of how bittersweet it was leaving each other and our hometown, though I still get to see two of them regularly in college. We often did sing (and sign, as we are Deaf) along to this in the car.

]]> By: Paul Dennis http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-358606 Paul Dennis Mon, 16 May 2011 10:26:02 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-358606 “Where Have All Our Heroes Gone” by Bill Anderson. There were many good things that came out of the 1960s but the breakdown of public civility was not one of them, a trend that continues to this day tthrough the misuse of the online media

]]> By: Hoggy from Oz http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-358589 Hoggy from Oz Mon, 16 May 2011 08:10:19 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-358589 Brad Paisley’s “Welcome to the Future”. Although I’m not American and live in Australia, I remember the day when President Obama won the 2008 election. I was with my mates and we were in the school library, supposed to be doing research for our final assignments, but instead all of us (including the teachers) gathered around the computers to watch the tallies being counted. Although we could hardly fathom the true significance of the moment, we all knew that history, one way or the other, was being made and that the times were changing.

]]> By: Jake http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-358547 Jake Mon, 16 May 2011 03:57:16 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-358547 “God Bless The USA” always takes me back to my third grade concert back in 2001.

]]> By: bll http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/05/15/the-30-day-song-challenge-day-7/#comment-358545 bll Mon, 16 May 2011 03:50:58 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=18697#comment-358545 “Learning to Live Again” by Garth Brooks; I had just found out my then husband had a five year old just four days short of our 8th wedding anniversary, and a month after having a tumour removed that made me unable to conceive.

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