30-Day Music Challenge: Day 1

1. A song you like with a color in the title.

How did she do it? How did she dare?

I mean, sure, this record sounds raw, vulnerable, and true, and everybody uses those words to describe art.

It's another thing altogether to do them -- to live them -- in public. This is what blue, in its alternate meaning sounds like, feels like, hurts like.

It takes guts.

There are those who would shun these expressions from a loved one in an effort to be reasonable. Avoid such people. It should hurt when your partner has to leave.

This is Emmylou Harris, complete with cracks and pops, singing "Blue Kentucky Girl".

As Classic As Country Gets

When the story behind the original version of a country song is sadder than the song itself … but that’s another story.

I love that this album exists, and this is one of the best cuts from it. Just listen to Dolly Parton pouring out her heartache on the bridge (In simplest terms, that’d be the part in the middle of the song)! Her performance on this one is especially moving.

Country don’t git more classic than this. For Music Mix Monday, this is Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette with “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know”.

Ronstadt, Parton, and Harris, Live

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris collaborated on more than one occasion to make musical magic. This is one of their earliest efforts.

Dolly Parton had a TV show back then, and this clip comes from that show. It’s an old Carter Family favorite called “The Sweetest Gift”.

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