There are certain songs that stick with you, songs that at the time, the place, connect with you and those are songs that you will always go back to thru your life. I was thinking tonight while in the shower singing one of my soundtrack songs about how funny it is that you can still sing songs from a decade ago nearly every day after that. So for your enjoyment, my soundtrack and why these songs made a difference to me…

The first, very first song that ever really impacted me, that I ever really carried with me was James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, it was my lullabye when I was a baby, and one of the very first songs I can ever remember singing.

Flash forward to my very first heartbreak, my very first real love- that one is Bonnie Raitt, I can’t make you love me.. Perhaps one of the most heartbreaking, true to life songs I’ve ever known. It is in fact a song I sing nearly every day and was the song I was singing tonight in the shower. Not because there’s anything wrong, just because I’ve always had that song inside me.

Next up, Wonderful Tonight, by of course Clapton. If you don’t have a clapton song somewhere on your “list”‘ then you’re just insane.

Wish you were here, Pink Floyd, the first time in my adult life I lost a friend, this was the song that stayed with me for weeks and the song I happened to hit in shuffle while driving to his funeral. I kept that song on repeat the entire rest of the 2 hour drive and now everytime I hear it I think of him.

Fire and Rain, also James Taylor, another heartbreaking loss song.

Don’t stop believing, Journey- the first song I ever remember hearing from Journey, and crapsake it just is a song that makes you dance.

The Middle, and Your House, Jimmy Eat world. That whole album in fact represents a time in my life.

Back to you, John Mayer, another pivotal time in my life. His music always gets me though, I think it’s cause we’re the same age and happen to go thru the same random crap at the same time.

Fly - which I first heard by those fantastical Dixie Chicks, but then the original by Patty Griffin, there’s just so much truth in that song too that spoke to me.

to round out my list for now at least, Heavenly Day also by Patty Griffin, that was our first dance song at our wedding. We weren’t looking for a traditional lovey dovey song, I wanted something that spoke to the day and this one hit the nail on the head.