Isn't it romantic?
Tuesday June 13, 2006
If you have a few minutes, take the time to listen to this commentary by Rawlins Gilliland, a Dallas writer, who offered it earlier this week on KERA, the public radio station in Dallas. It's about the emotional and mythical power of classic American popular songs. Now, you can read the short essay on the link I provided, but words on the page cannot do it justice. You have to hear, between musical passages, Rawlins read in his soft, deep Texas accent, as comforting as a broken-in pair of cowboy boots. It really is one of the loveliest radio essays I've ever heard.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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