Country Roads

Cartoon of a fair-skinned, green-eyed,
brunette-and-grey-haired smiling
woman wearing a blue top and bunny
slippers, playing a black grand piano
with a single rose in a bud vase.

So Miz Liz has been doing the Take Care of Mom thing all day (Abby, too, but she was also doing her and my mom's usual Sunday afternoon TV-together thing).

Liz wanted to go for a drive after dinner, to listen to The Devil Went Down to Georgia on the surround sound I have in my van, it being one of the few "countryesque" songs she likes, "like, unironically, Mom."

So we did so, after she made a playlist called "Those countryesque songs I like, plus a few parody ones I'll add later."

These consisted of the aforementioned The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Honey I'm Good, Grandma's Feather Bed, Timber (Featuring Ke$ha), and Faster Car. 

Naturally, I have a rather larger repertoire of country-songs-I-enjoy-unironically than Liz does; I'm 52 to her 13. So after we were done with this playlist, still several songs away from home, we tried Kenny Rogers' The Gambler (which she pronounced to be "a bop" and was suitably impressed that The Gambler had gone out in his sleep as he'd wished) and Ghost Riders in the Sky (which I explained that a character of mine in a Mage: The Ascension game had once used to summon The Wild Hunt).

So we're much closer to home now, and we have time for one more song. I ask her if she's heard about the meme going around Tumblr (and therefore Reddit and Pinterest and so forth) about the titular character from Piano Man playing in a gay bar, primarily because of Paul the Real Estate Novelist and Davy who's still in the Navy. She hasn't, but she's interested, so we listen to that.

Those last three have now been (unironically) added to her playlist. Achy Breaky Heart didn't make the cut.

It was a nice, chill sort of weekend for this Mom.