tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post111704523400366103..comments2009-07-14T22:48:18.007-05:00Byranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02904365789033352077noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post-1117517358791926082005-05-31T00:29:00.000-05:002005-05-31T00:29:00.000-05:00Lauren--<BR/>I mentioned Beachys because denomination affects music choices, "rebellious" music choices in this case. A rebellious Unitarian Universalist teenager would not listen to John Denver.<BR/>I have known many cool Beachys but I was never one myself. Never as nicely dressed as the Indiana Beachys or as intellectual as the Kansas Beachys or as rich as the Pennsylvania Beachys. Sigh. And I never had my brother's cool movie-star mystique. Double sigh.Dorcashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08337547157993332138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post-1117402649222484002005-05-29T16:37:00.000-05:002005-05-29T16:37:00.000-05:00Should I take that as a slam against Beachys and out musical interests for the most part??? Or a compliment??? You did use 'cool' in the same sentance..... :) <BR/> LaurenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post-1117215310043940012005-05-27T12:35:00.000-05:002005-05-27T12:35:00.000-05:00When I was young, John Denver was who you listened to if you were cool and rebellious and Beachy Amish, like my big brother that I idolized.<BR/>Recently I picked up a secondhand John Denver tape out of curiosity and like you found it very moving. Not very "rebellious" music from this perspective.<BR/>Interestingly enough, my cool big brother ended up living in Corn, Oklahoma, a nest of Mennonite Brethren, where he found out that John Denver was formerly a Mennonite named John Deufendorf or something and was related to half the town.Dorcashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08337547157993332138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post-1117077895044395042005-05-25T22:24:00.000-05:002005-05-25T22:24:00.000-05:00Oh I love it!<BR/><BR/>I want to live in Tennessee sometime, at least over Christmas, so I can truly experience a "Tender Tennessee Christmas". I love that song, but I feel incomplete everytime I hear it, like I'm missing out on something significant and beautiful. <BR/><BR/>AnitaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669838.post-1117046069584511742005-05-25T13:34:00.000-05:002005-05-25T13:34:00.000-05:00"(and these are two examples of music at that “best” level)"<BR/><BR/>Um, By, neither of those songs are even a cappella.ITFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07822759409459907311noreply@blogger.com