In my mind, music should bring you back to old memories, and help you create new ones. Kina Grannis & Boyce Avenue’s cover of Tracy Chapman’s, “Fast Car,” definitely brought me back to my childhood…
As a kid my parents owned a monogramming store in the mall where I grew up. Every couple of months, my Father would send my Mother to these monograming conventions across the country, while my father looked after the store, and us kids.
Now, my mother is an amazing cook, so needles to say we hated it when she left. It was the same routine every time she left. My father would come home from the store, put his Tracy Chapman cd in the stereo, and start making raviolis for us. Kristy (my sister), Douglas (my brother), and I dubbed all of the songs my father used to play during those times, “ravioli music.“
My sister and brother are my best friends, no… they are my everything. We all live in three different cites now, so whenever we get together we make it count. We always find ourselves at a bar, searching through the jukebox for Fast Car, and screaming it at the top of our lungs, while everyone else at the bar is staring at us!
Every little kid always wishes they could be older, but I’d give anything to relive those ravioli nights… Those were the days…
