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O.k. So did anyone else grow up on Patsy Cline, John Prine, Lynard Skynard, and OLD Country (Lorretta Lynne, Cash, Waylon, ect)? This is what played around my house.

Summer nights around the bonfire, all of my dad's friends (good ol' boys and rednecks and farmers) gathered around, sliding potato's and Hobo Stew through a pipe above the fire pit, talking and laughing and singing along. It may sound all sorts of small town country (and it was), but it was wonderful. And I am of the age that I went through NSYC and Backstreet Boys. But I always came back to Daddy's music, and so did my friends. And we got into AC/DC and the "Classic Rock" Stations and some of the newer country (maybe that was just me) and current Pop music of the day. I fell in love with The Doors and had their posters all around my room. A friend introduced me to show tunes, which have followed me from group to social group. I liked Eminem and Kid Rock (originally because they pissed off my parents).

I was lucky enough to have older adults guide me towards folk, funk, jazz, grass roots music. We had local musicians I could call friends. I worry for some of the younger generations. My baby sister has me, and our funky cool momma. But she also has, as Elwood put it "Soulless saccharine Pop."

What did you grow up on?

well my parents liked the beatles & the rolling stones . my dad liked the beach boys and ELO the moody blues . my mom liked willie nelson & frank sinatra . and doo woop there was always music playing my house. it was out thing when i was younger when my parents asked me who sang what lol still goes on till this day