Trudes
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From: Impetuousfink at aol_com
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:35 PM
To: ortrudes at mindspring_com;
over-the-rhine at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Thinking of the back
roads...
>….I was born
and raised in tiny little Troy, Montana. Less than a
thousand people, we lurked in the woods by the Idaho-Canada border, with Glacier National
Park a little bit to the east…..
Boy, What a beautiful
place to call home. Montana is a gorgeous state.
>….Homer Alaska, a place
very much like my hometown. ……..
I’d love to visit Alaska someday. Homer is the home of Jewel, is it not? I have read her book and her description
of home was very inviting.
>....While on a trip to Anchorage, I discovered Good Dog Bad Dog at Borders. The first
thing that struck me was how much I envisioned Troy as I
listened to it. Especially with Go Down Easy. It was great. So two months
later I had collected all their albums and was a diehard fan.
Go Down Easy may just
be about my favorite OTR song…It makes me have goosebumps when I listen…especially
the words ‘find a slow curve of a back road, with one hand on the wheel…Oh
god…take me there, NOW.
>When I
listened first to OHIO, I felt the
same way I did back at that Anchorage Borders. I can jump in my car, hit
play, and it doesn't matter if I'm stuck in traffic on the Bay Bridge, in my head
I'm pumping my legs up Callahan Road on my
brother's handed-down bicycle, with the cottonwood trees dusting me with their
fluffy seeds.
yeah, I'm a
hometown boy.
Thanks
for sharing your thoughts, Perry…cherish those memories….Trudes xo