I find myself missing country music. I listen to one of the all-news kinds of stations that they have here in Chicagoland. But one of the radio stations I listened to in Kokomo was WWKI, a good station for getting the weather and local news, find out what was happening around Kokomo. And WWKI was pure country those crying and fighting, drinking and dancing, cheating and loving, trucking and cowpoking, tight blue jeans kinds of songs. Most of the songs I didn t care for at all, but some of them I did.
Country songs can sometimes tell a poignant and insightful story about life.
They can say a great deal about people and people s pains and struggles, with just a few words, sometimes just a brief catchy phrase. One of the songs that struck home to me was one about where corn don t grow. In other words, don t you get tired of corn, planting it, cultivating it, fertilizing it, harvesting it, living around it, looking at it. The question makes his dad kind of sad. He says, You re young, and there s a lot that you don t know, but weeds are high where corn don t grow.