Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there!  In honor of this day, I thought I would make today's post dedicated to my dear father.
My dad loves music as much as - if not more than - I do.  Every Saturday night (and any other night he cooks dinner instead of my mom) he has music playing over the stereo.  He puts together a playlist, usually themed, using his 10,000+ library.  He actually ran out of room on iTunes and now has other songs on a drive.  People sometimes even ask my dad to make the playlist for a party they are having because he does such a good job.  So, to honor my dad's amazing work, I put together a list of my dad's favorite artists.

1. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
2. Telephone Line - Electric Light Orchestra
3. Tommy (the whole album) - The Who
4. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
5. Already Gone - The Eagles
6. Open Arms - Journey
7. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
8. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
9. La Grange - ZZ Top
10. Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Side 1:
Folsom Prison Blues
Dark as the Dungeon
I Still Miss Someone
Cocaine Blues
25 Minutes to Go
Orange Blossom Special
The Long Black Veil

Side 2:
Send a Picture of Mother
The Wall
Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart
Jackson (with June Carter)
Give My Love to Rose (with June Carter)
I Got Stripes
Green, Green Grass of Home
Greystone Chapel

I wanted and received this record for my birthday this year. It is a very famous record by Johnny Cash with special guest June Carter. On the back of the record is a written message from Johnny Cash. Part of it reads, "Listen closely to this album and you hear in the background the clanging of the doors, the shrill of the whistle, the shout of the men - even laughter from men who had forgotten how to laugh." He continues, "But mostly you'll feel the electricity and hear the single pulsation of two thousand heartbeats in men who have had their hearts torn out, as well as their minds, their nervous systems, and their souls.
Hear the sounds of the men, the convicts - all brothers of mine - with the Folsom Prison Blues."
I think those paragraphs show what Johnny Cash was really like. It's a fantastic album and gets five stars from me.