W.E. Krill, Jr. M.S.P.C.

I have a love affair with music. I really like music.  But I am just an observer of it. I can’t carry a tune or rhythm in a bucket, and though I have tried, I cannot read music or play an instrument. But oh boy, do I love to listen and watch live performers. I am transfixed by the talent of a musician. I watch and hear my son playing the drums, or guitar, or his latest, a ukulele and am totally enchanted.  Watching him grow as a musician has been a real joy of my life.

Though I appreciate all music, and there are a few styles that I clearly dislike, like most people, I have my favorites. I like classic rock, enjoy some jazz, find bluegrass and old folk music strangely enticing, but my hands down favorite type of music is the blues. From old time black bluesmen to the British invasion blues musicians, the blues speak to me in a way that no other music does. Something in the sound, the style, the very feel of it at once releases something from my heart and creates in me a sense of beauty and truth about life that is often so sharp and salient as to bring me to tears of joy. (And to burst into song along with the performer, which is not a pretty thing, trust me.)

I’d have to look up who first said it  and where (I think it is in a Shakespeare play) “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast”. (Yes, it is ‘breast’ and not ‘beast’). It certainly is true for me. I don’t know what my life would be like if I could not hear the blues. My son Tyler has been overheard saying that ‘music is my life’. I am glad that maybe he got that love of music from me, but I’m certain his talent for it did not come from my side of the family!

Use music to enhance your life, to heal your wounds, to comfort your soul, and to express your joy in life.