365 project:"im gonna live where the green grass grows, watching corn pop up in rows"

37.

artist:Tim mcgraw
album:greatest hits

I'm cheating a little bit here, as I'm only a little bit more than halfway through the CD right now (i was on track ten of 15 when i got out of the car) but i wanted to get this post done before i went to sleep, and i figured i can just listen to the rest of the CD before i fall asleep tonight.

this album was not the first country music CD that i bought, but it was the one that i would consider my gateway album. i remember very vividly the first time i ever heard this CD. my old job used to be really fun. we used to have a really good time working and i used to look forward to going in most days, if you can believe that. one summer a few summers back, i was working second shifts with a bunch of kids about my age. we used to pull the CD player out, plug it in and listen to whatever we felt like that was suitable for the public and that wasn't the crap satellite stuff they pumped in.

on this particular day, i was behind the deli with Lauren and rob. Lauren had brought in her Tim mcgraw's greatest hits CD from the car, and we were just working away and having a good time. at this moment in time, i wasn't really listening to country music, though it wasn't totally off of my radar. i was surprised to see how many of the songs i knew, though at the time i didn't know the artist, and when i figured out who it was a few days later, i decided i needed to own this album.

not too long after this purchase, i was wearing cowboy hats, quoting dierks bentley and driving around all day listening to 92.5 on the radio. this actually went on for a while, first just in the summer, and then for about two years straight (i wasn't wearing the cowboy hat that whole time, just whenever i was out in the sun...) until i just got tired of it. i do still listen to country music fairly regularly, but now its a much more healthy level, mixed in with the other genres that i love.

and yes, the title of this blog came from a Tim mcgraw song. its one of my favorite songs in existence, and its how i want my life to end up.

I'm gonna live where the green grass grows
Watch my corn pop up in rows
Every night be tucked in close to you
Raise our kids where the good Lord's blessed
Point our rockin' chairs towards the west
And plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows
Whoa-oh, where the green grass grows

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