Friday, August 15, 2008

MIX TAPE - Homebodies!!!

so this past week or so I've been busy here with my folks visiting. Tomorrow they're heading home, though. It's been a good visit and all that... but you're here for the tunes, so I'll save the recaps for next week.



Anyways.... I was watching the Olympics.. thinking about my folks leaving... or even just them BEING HERE... and it was pretty clear what this week's topic should be.


HOME.



whatever that definition of "home" is for you... maybe it's where you live now.. maybe it's when you're with your family... maybe it's a nod to the state or city you grew up in or near.


but the point is... everyone is from somewhere. Let's take a minute and suggest a song that evokes a feeling of 'home' for you.


One song, and one song only, gang.


new list will be up on monday!

14 comments:

Christi said...

"Dixie", or "I Wish I was in Dixie". No doubt about it. I'm a Southern girl through and through...w/o the Southern accent, though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJsHv0uPstk&feature=related

The flag on the video is backwards, but oh well!

Anonymous said...

Puff the magic dragon - Peter, Paul & Mary

When I was little, my dad would play this for us on guitar. Every time I hear it I think of him and home and my family altogether.

Unknown said...

Somewhere over the rainbow. I'm from Kansas and I do miss home!

Anonymous said...

carolina in my mind by james taylor. you can take the girl out of the south, you can even try really hard to take the south out of the girl, but sweet tea and this song remain :)

Cathy said...

White Wedding by Billy Idol

Anonymous said...

Any classic rock makes me think of my dad working on or around the house on the weekends when I was young. But I'll pick The Beatles "Golden Slumber"

Unknown said...

i'm drawing a blank this week. :-(

Anonymous said...

Don't ask why, but for me it's Meatloaf's Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. (My mom was really into Meatloaf when I was young.)

carrie said...

Anything by Crosby, Stills and Nash - but if I had to pick just one . . . "Teach your Children."

Can't wait to see the list! :)

Anonymous said...

Tough one, Carrie.

Cowboy Take Me Away by the Dixie Chicks.

No real reason. Just a song I fell in love with shortly after I moved home from college.

-A said...

Where the Green Grass Grow - Tim McGraw. I live in a "map dot, stop sign on the blacktop" town and have since I was nine.

Anonymous said...

Helpless, Helpless - Neil Young

Anonymous said...

Alberta Bound - Gordon Lightfoot

Anonymous said...

battle of new orleans