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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I liked most of his music. There is a video out there of him with Iris DeMent doing "In Spite of Ourselves" that I could watch over and over. They go great together.
I have mixed feelings about, "Hello in There," which depicts the elderly as pathetic, lonely nobodies.
It's a sweet, poignant melody, but "old folks" don't, "Just grow lonesome waiting for someone to say, 'Hello in there.'" I'm 73 and I feel a little insulted by that lyric. I'm not that pathetic, and if someone came up to me and said, "Hello in There" I'd probably punch them.
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I volunteer as a musician at the care home where my MIL lives. Many folks there are unable to communicate much, but every one of them has a story. Many have no visitors. I try to reach out with music and am sometimes surprised by their requests or reactions to songs. My wife reads short stories weekly to a group and sometimes their stories take up most of the time.
I think of "Hello In There " every time I walk in the door.
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Les