Friday; October 21
When Arthur Conley, Jr. asked the musical question in 1967, “Do you like good music …” my response was, “Yes, I do.”. My answer over fifty years later is still the same. Just about whenever and wherever you see me, I’ll have music playing in the background. Whether in my office, my car or even as I mow the grass, I like good music. As a child of the 60’s and 70’s there were a lot of people who would challenge the “good” part of that last statement, in fact some of the people who critiqued music back then declared that Rock and Roll was the beginning of the end for our society, but we listened to it anyway. Did we end up better or worse – I guess that is a question for the ages. While we like our music, sometimes I wonder if it really is good for us. Now, please hear me out, I am not calling out any particular style or genre of music, I am just wondering about the impact music makes on us. Did the protest songs of the 1960s challenge us to do more for the nation or simply distr