Keep Me In Your Heart by Warren Zevon

I glossed over Warren Zevon's music growing up. Passed it by. I saw the man's tapes in the library stacks, where I'd always check out the maximum number of items, and just never got curious about what the man might sound like. His name sounded funny, even for my town. I never got on this train.
It might have had something to do with my teenage obsession with jazz. See my Jealous Guy post for more about that.
There's a theme here I guess: a lot of the songs I'm doing now are by writers who I just didn't think about when I was growing up, for reasons of distraction, misdevelopment or blindness. But eat your vegetables, Trev. I was too young to appreciate them at the time. Now, after some growing and some healing I'm finding out that they're part of my DNA.
And they go down good. Having slowed down a bit, I'm now able to consider the immense debt of gratitude I owe to these songs, for teaching me how to be.
"Keep Me In Your Heart" especially. [read the rest at www.playitlikeitsmusic.com]