Out with the old....

In my grandparents' back bedroom, my cousin, Elizabeth, and I would hang out whenever she came south to visit. She grew up in a nice little suburb of Memphis, which was a whole 6 hours away, so we valued the time we shared. There was an old cassette/radio player on which we would listen to my Mamaw's tapes, mainly Dolly Parton. We would also play charades, and sleep on layers and layers of old blankets piled on the floor, which we called a pallett, even though there was a perfectly good bed looking down at us in the dark. But the two songs I remember loving most on that Dolly album were "Jolene," and "Islands In The Stream." Well, Perezhilton put a cover of Kenny Rogers' and Miss Dolly's duet on his site, done by two Canadian bands, Feist and the Constantines. You can hardly tell it's the same song, but it strikes the same chord in me as the original and forces me to listen to it over and over. And it makes me think of Pooh, who is back in Memphis after almost 10 years of living in NYC, and that room, which was plenty big back then, and now is tiny and the echos of "Jolene" almost forgotten. You HAVE to listen to this song! http://perezhilton.com/2008-04-15-listen-to-this-islands