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Posted: 18 Jan 2015

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Soundtrack to Life

Soundtrack to Life
This is a photo I took many years ago of a special place in the neighborhood where I grew up. It used to have a great old barn that my friends and I went in one time when it was raining. It was full of loose hay and we had a lot of fun there. We had to climb a barbed wire fence and dodge our way around some unruly cows to get there, but it was worth it. The old barn eventually collapsed and this one was built in its place. It makes me think of this song; "40 Mile Town."

Eric Johnson (From his Ah Via Musicom album 1990)


YouTube: 40 Mile Town

I got a way I can find you
Down the Melody Ranch, I know you're there most everyday
That's where you like to spend some time alone
I need to talk to you
Tell you what I feel like, warm hellos in the morning mist
You're the magic that turns my heart around

Seems to me, we're really living way too fast
Oh when we should let the story of love last
Sometimes I just want to go and drift away...
And move on to some forty mile town

I got a way I can see you
Close my eyes and start to watch the ancient water flow
A crystal dance that paupers know so well
That's the way kings keep dreamin'
Hold their head up high and live below forty mile skies
The way that it can be in ocean towns

Things of this world guess we never really own
Oh that mountain falls and then we're goin' home
We should try to make the best and get away...
Work on towards our forty mile town

Seems to me we really need to feel love more,
Oh an ordinary smile opens the door
Sometimes all I want to do is dream away...
Wake up in some forty mile town

, , Gillian Everett, Roger Bennion and 4 other people have particularly liked this photo

13 comments - The latest ones
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
Nice image - it evokes, to me, the relaxed mood of a painting - because that's what it looks like!
9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to HaarFager club
Thanks Kenny. You're quick!! (or should I say "Quisp?" ;)
9 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club
When have you visited Finland? =O Just kidding ;-) But this is very similar view as what we could have here. Farm building built and painted exactly the same way.

EDIT: And I would love to see what the old barn looked like.
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Oh, isn't that interesting Sami? Now that you say that I can really see what you mean. We have these red barns all over the U.S. Probably not so much anymore, but really popular when I was growing up.

The old barn, if I remember correctly, was much bigger (of course I was much smaller too) and it seemed to be bursting outward with hay spilling out of it. And the paint was very worn. It also had many cracked and broken boards. What heaven inside though, with that wonderful smell of hay on a rainy day.
9 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Karen's Place club
I guess some of those barns are influenced by the immigrants moved to US from Scandinavia ;-)

See this Wikipedia article about "Falu red": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red
9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Well, that was really interesting Sami. I can't believe all the shades of red, but then I suppose it wasn't an exact science mixing the paint so long ago.

I think you might be exactly right about the origin of these barns to the U.S. The name of the owner of this barn and field is "Bloomquist."

Just to add a little more to the story...The Bloomquists had a daughter named Judy and she had a horse named Rebel who was part draft horse and lived in this pasture. It was quite the event to see Judy Bloomquist on her huge horse riding around the neighborhood back in those days lol.
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Roger Bennion
Roger Bennion club
Clearly wonderful memories and a great match for 'Soundtrack to Life', Karen. Faved for sure and this is a superb track! I didn't actually think that I had heard of Eric Johnson. But, looking at Wikipedia I see that Eric played on one track on the album “Read My Licks” by Chet Atkins. This is one of my fave cd's. And also, Eric played on one track on “Street Language” by Rodney Crowell; another of my fave cd's :-) Thanks so much for posting to 'StoL', Karen :-)
9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Roger Bennion club
It's fun to see where different musicians show up isn't it? I haven't listened to him if several years and just put this on the other day and thought it might work in the group. Glad you like it Roger. I hope you have a nice week! :)
9 years ago.
Roger Bennion club has replied to Karen's Place club
It is indeed :-)) And, you have a lovely week Karen.
9 years ago.
 Fantasyfan
Fantasyfan
The view, even though it's unfamiliar, looks very home like to me
9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Fantasyfan
Finland must be very pretty Sanna (as I've seen in your photos too.)

This is also very close to the water and right across the bay there is an island. It's very picturesque.
9 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Great lyrics, story and image, Kes.
9 years ago.
Karen's Place club has replied to Gillian Everett club
Thank you Gillian.
9 years ago.

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