A Father’s Song – Please click on this link to listen to the song first or you might not understand this post (if you right click on the link you can open it in a new tab or window)
A lot of you know that my husband is in the professional bluegrass band Blue Moon Rising, if you didn’t know that, you do now 
. As I sit here typing this watching it snow in the reflection of my iMac and getting ready for a session, while our 2 year old plays with his cars and our 6 year old is getting spoiled by Mamaw, my husband/their daddy is on the road to a show. He called me up earlier to listen to a song; Darrell Scott’s A Fathers Song (the song above). This song defines my husband.
Musicians are mistake as horrible people who don’t care about their family and would rather put music before their family but that is NOT always the case. It is often considered an oxymoron to be a family man and musician on the road! There has been MANY time my husband has not even been out of our neighborhood and I will have to wipe the tears from our 6 year old or deal with a 2 year old tantrum all because they just wanted daddy to stay home this weekend. They just don’t understand that daddy has a “fire” so strong that we can’t keep him here and he does this for them. I promise them that Sunday or Monday he will be back to us, and all 4 of us snuggled up in our King bed until they fall fast asleep. They might not understand now, but one day they will know that he does this for them!
So next time that you are at a show or a festival, I beg you, please thank them (whoever it might be) for the sacrifices, tear-filled phone calls, missed holidays and missed birthdays all so that you could have an amazing holiday/weekend with YOUR family.
If one day my husband does ever decides to leave music, I KNOW that that music will never leave him because it is his passion and that will never leave him. I love my husband and my love includes loving his passion so I will be here to wipe the tears of sadness until he can get back home to wipe the tears of happiness.
If you liked the song above Darrell is actually giving a free download of it away!
Here is a picture of my husband playing his pre-war bass.
