Blue bird Singing

I was listening to some shuffled music this morning and a song my Dad and I recorded started playing.  My first inclination was to skip it off but after a few beats I decided to let it play and I'm glad I did.

My Dad has been gone for a few years now and we were in a bluegrass band for years and after all the things we went through together the one thing we still shared was our music.  The only pictures we had together for his last years was of us playing music.  I loved my father so dearly but differences in religion drove an insurmountable wedge between us.

My cousin loves this song (Blue bird Singing).  She said she couldn't get enough and would play the CD over and over again.  In the chorus my Dad would sing the lines and then I would call back only to come together in unison on the third line in perfrect harmony.  

My Dad always said that family members had the best harmony because they have similar voices based around their genetics.  I find it so amazing that we could be so "together" as we sang but be so far apart in our relationship.

Blue bird Singing is possibly the best song my Dad and I recorded together.  Its about as close to perfect as we could get.  The instrumentation is also very good, beautifully simple but appropriate.  If only our lives together could have been as perfect as our music.

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