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I struggle sometimes to decide what my favorite Elton John album is…it’s a toss up, but song for song, I come back to Tumbleweed Connection. “The Ballad of a Well Known Gun” is a rousing start…then the album lilts into “Come Down in Time”…touching and poignant lyrics worthy of Bernie Taupin’s immense talent…Then I’m captivated by, “My Father’s Gun”…the story of a son who inherits his father’s gun, and takes up arms in the Civil War…”Where to Now St. Peter” asks me which road we’re on…do we know? “Amoreena” is a love song…a song about that special girl…the one we can’t seem to get over…and then…there is “Old Soldiers Talking”….this song is so incredibly powerful…It’s about two veterans, reminiscing about their days at war, and the friends they had lost…”Into the Old Man’s Shoe’s” is a son’s realization that his father was larger than he ever imagined…and that filling his shoes will be harder to fill than he anticipated…The album…yes, I said album, takes me through a gamut of emotions, and makes me contemplate all of life…it’s gifts and curses…When an album, (yep, said it again) can make you think…really think, It’s a gift and a testament to the artist. When it evokes emotion, so much better, as it brings out a part of us that we often keep hidden.
In My Life... 