NaBloPoMo prompt - What was your favorite song this year? Five years ago? Ten years ago? Twenty?
How could a "songbird" resist this writing prompt? What was your favorite song this year? Five years ago? Ten years ago? Twenty? My musical tastes, as you may have guessed, range far and wide. 2010. My current favorite song has got to be Jimmy Buffett's cover of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song, "Southern Cross". Aside fromt he fact that I've become a real Parrtohead in the last year or so, and have gone to two Buffett concerts, but the lyrics of this song...well, when I went on my cruise in February...I had to do some star-gazing aboard ship. 2005. Two songs come to mind. Melissa Etheridge's "I Run for Life" and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying". That was my year from hell, with surgery and radiation and chemo, and those two songs touched me deeply. 2000. Well, for me, that was a year dominated by Billy Joel. I have his concert album from the show he did at Mdison Square Garden on 12/31/1999. A two-disc...