My Father’s House
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“My Father’s House” — Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott (Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, Alta, WY, August 13, 2000)
Darrell Scott’s autobiographical “My Father’s House” should be required listening for aspiring songwriters. Its lyrics say everything that needs to be said, and not a word more, about childhood lost, the power of music, unrequited love, sons and their fathers, and the holes inside of us we spend our lifetimes trying to fill. I listened to it ten times yesterday, and gleaned a wholly different nugget of brilliant, magical truth each time. For a reason I’ve yet to fully discern, I sob uncontrollably every third or fourth time I hear it, as though it’s touching a depth in my emotional reservoir I’m not able to consciously swim to. And then there’s that mysterious refrain, on loan from another song, from some other time, and somehow perfectly fitting.
Download the song here, or help yourself to the entire Tim and Darrell show over at It’s Great To Be Alive. For more Darrell, browse over to this recent post.
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