“A change is gonna’ come…”
In 2005, Taylor Hicks
sang those prophetic words before the American Idol judges in Las
Vegas .
And it surely did.
“Change can be good. Change can
be bad. But change is always one thing…inevitable.”
I heard those words last week as I made a major change in my
workplace after 16 years in the same room, same environment. People around me
came and left. I was comfortably
established.
I don’t like change… I look for ways to mitigate it. I clung to the green plants that
had grown in my room for most of those 16 years and moved them carefully. I took all of my familiars into an unfamiliar
place. I believe we all cling to what we
know.
And I felt the frustration last week as I read the feed from
music blogger, Bob Lefsetz.
“So, I don’t know if it’s a day of change or not. Because
I’m bad with change, I’m afraid of loss in the process.”
But Sunday morning I woke up in a different mood. I had found the constants that I could hold on
to.
Reading the Taylor Hicks twitter feed the evening before, I welcomed a long-time constant.
“@nebrinkley: I forgot how much I loved Taylor Hicks’ ‘Just
To Feel That Way.’ Such a good song.”
In 2007, a dear friend came to visit to attend Taylor Hicks
concerts in Phoenix and Las
Vegas . We were
shopping in the grocery store and suddenly heard a familiar voice—Taylor
Hicks singing “Just to Feel That Way!”
In the kick off of 2014 concerts, Taylor
appeared at the Clearwater River Casino in Lewiston, Idaho, Saturday night. He said in a prior interview with Inland360.com his plans for 2014 included “a long list of gigs, including tours
around the country, the finale of his Paris Las Vegas residency and a new
country album, which Hicks, 37, said should be released in spring.”
“ ‘The common thread will be my voice and the
instrumentation,’ Hicks said of the Nashville
recorded album, which features more country music than his previous soul,
blues, and funk albums.”
“common thread” –that’s what I was looking for. Whatever the new roles, new venues, new
endeavors, there is always…
The music.
In the Inland360 interview, Taylor assured the Clearwater River Casino audience that they "could look
forward to hearing… ‘Just some really great live music.’”
That’s the constant we can all look forward to, and these are the words from Taylor
that I have kept going back to for a long time:
“For me, you can take it all.
But leave me with the music.”
As surely as there is
change, just as surely, there is the constant.
The room may change, the road wind in a different direction,
the drums kick out a different beat, or the new place lie over the horizon. The voice and the music remain.
Leave me with the music.
The Taylor
~~~
It always comes back to the music.
~~~
All the very best of happiness and success to Taylor Hicks in 2014!
Wherever the song takes him...
...and us.
~~~
Sources: “Hicks goes Hollywood : American Idol winner performs at Clearwater
River Casino” inland360.com
Posts
