Music, Sound, Emotion / Rebekka Ayres On Country Music
Rebekka Ayres / Writer and Music Lover
London, United Kingdom
I am fanatical about a woman from the 1960s called Mistress Mary. She released one exceptional country/psychedelic album called Housewife, and then left music forever to become a female self-defense instructor and belly dance teacher. The album is raw, rich, and filled with aching bitterness, about her heartbreak and moving on from a relationship with a cruel but deeply charasmatic man.
Growing up, my parents loved country music - everything from George Jones, Jim Reeves, and Gram Parsons to Shania Twain, Alan Jackson, and Dwight Yoakam. I rejected it for a long time because I didn’t want to like what my parents liked, but then I started going to Texas, and it was like being in a strange dream where I knew the words to every song in every bar. Now, I’ve come full circle, and it’s formed the soundtrack to the most vibrant adventures of my adult life.
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Rebekka recommends Kris Kristofferson’s “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends” (the version from The Publishing Demos). She says, “His voice is so natural, immediate and soul-baring - it puts a lump in my throat every time.”