23 January 2012

When a song can take you somewhere.


Imagine it: 

Christmas 2003, Boston, Massachusetts.  I was sixteen years old, my little sister LMG was 13.  My dad was 49 that year.  My dad loved good music, and he liked to always stay up-to-date on the latest, so he had just purchased Alicia Keys' new album "The Diary of Alicia Keys".  Also being a fan of nice electronics, he'd just bought a new Bose player for his house.  He lived in a two family house at that time, in the downstairs unit from his brother and his brother's wife.  He brought the Bose upstairs that night into his sister-in-law's kitchen, and he put on the album.  We sat around the kitchen table - me, LMG, Darkwing, and his sister-in-law - LMG + myself sipping on coffee frappes and the adults toasting with beers (and my dad's cheeks turning red because he hardly ever drank alcohol), playing the Alicia Keys album on full blast.  Snow was almost two feet deep that year, and it was snowing that night again as we all took in the music, each other's company, and eventually stood up and boogied a little in the middle of the kitchen floor.  

Everytime I hear anything from that Alicia Keys album, I think of that night.  Especially when I hear the above song, because it was the one that we ended up spinning around the floor to first. 

Do you have any particular songs that bring back memories for you?

1 comment :

Sarah + Laura said...

I have a really random vivid memory of a family trip to Minnesota when I was younger, and riding in the car with The Corrs 'Breathless' haha - I loved that song and it still reminds me of Minneapolis!!

Laura xo
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