My Home Must Be A Special Place
a new cd by
David Massengill
Now available on Gadfly Records
I've lived for half a century now, and for half that time earned my way as an artist. As a child of my times, I looked to the future and the promise of a better world. Some years ago I noticed a shifting of perspective in my work. As though responding to a siren's call, I answered the irresistible impulse to revisit the past. And like many others before me, I discovered it is easier to improve the past than it is to improve the future.
It only took me 50 earned years to discover my purpose as an artist was to look back. It's as though I've been preparing my whole life to write these songs, where I aim to make the personal of family lore and hometown memories a universal. My domain is the life and times of what I have come to know as the very dear past. Back before we all got to be so mad at each other. That's where I'll be in the foreseeable future. Back in the past spotlighting moments of humanity.
--David Massengill
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Prologue: The First Time My Mother Saw My Father; The Girl From Nebraska; My First Kiss; Shamas Rides; The Great Holston Mountain Rescue of 1954; My Home Must Be A Special Place; Culture Hurts; Cousin Jackie and Mamaw's Hedges; Mrs. Credle Was My First Love; Aunt Fannie and the Yankees; Where Did Miss Nancy Sterrett Go? Frank Goodpasture Had A Pony; My Hometown; Epilogue: Old Letters In A Rolltop Desk |
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The Fugitive; Sierra Blanca Massacre and many others |
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Rider on an Orphan Train; Blind Man/Black Swan; The Great American Dream; Fireball's Last Ride; Perfect Love; Wake Up; The Return; Sightseer; Madou; Jesus, The Fugitive Prince; What's Wrong With The Man Upstairs?; A Girl's Daring Escape |
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My Name Joe; On The Road To Fairfax County; Number One in America; Coming Up For Air; Don Quixote's Lullaby (for Abbie Hoffman); Like A Big Wheel (You Make Me Feel); Where Has My True Love Gone?; A Notable Social Event/The Debutante's Ball; Contrary Mary; It's A Beautiful World |