SING ME BACK HOME
“I don’t need fortune and I don’t need fame; Send down the thunder, Lord, send down the rain; But when you’re plannin’ just how it will be, Plan a good day for me.” From the song ‘Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good’ by Don Williams. I was first introduced to Don William’s Country songs by my elder brother Franklin. I was in my Final year of B. Com, and my brother had brought home a tiny cassette-player. Along with it, he had, also, brought a couple of popular cassettes: Neil Diamond, Don Williams, ABBA, BoneyM and our own Mukesh (Hindi) and Jerome (Konkani). Those were his favourites, which, later, became my favouites, too. It was 1978-79. In these forty years, so much has changed and so fast. Nobody uses cassettes, LP’s, CDs anymore… Nobody uses those two-in-ones, three-in-ones or four-in-ones any more. Everyone uses his or her fingers just to click. For that matter, even the fingers are slowly vanishing… One just has to say: ‘Alexa play "‘Sing Me Back Home' by Don...