MUSIC one

Okay, so I completely failed on my "New Love" theme for March (it didn't help that we had a trip to California thrown in there, then a toddler who refused to get back on his nap schedule for over three weeks, and a second pregnancy that was just ending it's horrible tenure of nausea). So now it's April (sure it's already the 6th, but it's still pretty early in the month) and my angel card theme for the month is "Music." I was thinking how I could relate that to this blog, so I decided to pick random songs and talk about what they mean to me. Here goes.

"WHISKEY LULLABY"
by Brad Paisley (featuring Alison Krauss)

As a huge country fan, songs don't get much better than a ballad sung by two country artists (see: "A Bad Goodbye," "Good News, Bad News," "In Another's Eyes"). When "Whiskey Lullaby" came out back in 2003, it instantly joined the ranks of my favorite country duets. This was back when I still had access to country radio on the commute to work, and I would sing my heart out whenever it was played. Fast forward four years to 2007 to when Jack was a newborn and I composed a playlist for him of songs I knew by heart that I could sing that would relax him and get him ready for sleep. Well, "Whiskey Lullaby" (yes, a song about a double suicide) became my go-to song - it's music is soft and beautiful and the la-la-la-la-la-la-la chorus is perfect for relaxing a tired baby. I still sing it to this day when Jack is being exceptionally cranky and it still seems to work.