I LOVE ANITA BAKER

Just getting home from a night out with friends at the local disco.
Oil Can Harry's is a club that has been in the valley for decades.
(On Thursdays you can learn country line dancin' and boot scoot your way around the floor.

On the way home I was surprised when I turned on the stereo and hear Anita Baker.
Miss Anita Baker takes me back to the fall of 1986 when I made a brief move to Atlanta.  Her songs have a way of popping up on the radio at just the right moment to remind me of a time and a place that has long past into memory.  Hearing her always puts me at ease and reminds me to slow down, relax and listen for awhile.

Tonight I heard RAPTURE OF LOVE which then reminds of her other big hit SWEET LOVE.
All these songs take me right back to a my brief time in Atlanta. 
She is an artist with a distinct voice and someone that I really need to see live in concert soon.

I have bittersweet memories of Atlanta.  I injured my back there working a catering job and had to move home to Louisville.  I had moved from Nashville to see if I could break into the growing commerical/theatrical/stage market.  So whenever I hear an Anita Baker song from the RAPTURE album I am instantly transported back to my running around Piedmont Park and Atlanta's Midtown before it became a mini metropolis!  I was there for but a brief snapshot in time.  The AIDS crisis had hit the gay community in full force and there was fear in everyone's eyes.  It was an odd time and an amazing time.  By January of 1987 I found myself back in Louisville living in my father's house again.  That would last for 9 months and then I moved back to Nashville, to begin another chapter there.  When I write the book about my life it's title is, was and always will be....
ROADS I'VE TRAVELED TWICE!

Peace and blessings,
Gerry M.