FORmative yEARS.....

I am sitting here listening to Donny Hathaway singing "I Love you More Than You Will Ever Know' and I am so caught up in "The Rapture". No disrespect to Anita Baker, but more a Tribute to the music from my formative years. The songs that helped to create, shape and mold my formative ears. I am not a test-tube baby, but youtube, maybe, just maybe...lol I can come with the intent to listen to some old school, car wash kinda jams, trying to get my jook on and wind up lost on a two-way street to love. But that's alright with me, cause I know bout them lonely highways. I learned everything I know about love during my formative years, which would be early to late 70's. Then to find that the songs from when I was trying to be "fast", was the mid to late 80's. Now, I know why "I do the things I do"....lol...

I couldn't tell the difference from hymns and ballads because they all had soul and were the gospel truth. I just could sense the music: could see it, could hear it, was touched by it, developed a taste for it and I could smell the smoke, cause this music was and is fire.

My father was a preacher and "If loving God is Wrong, I don't wanna Be Right" was his most electrifying and captivating sermon; Luther Ingram (1972)and I was 6 years old.