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New Beginnings

Part 11

Best Friends in the Age of Aquarius

Part 1 song was called Luckenbach, Texas

(Back to the Basics of Love). Waylon

Music has always been amazingly Jennings released it alone. Then Willie
valuable to me as the words of a song can Nelson joined him and the song, written
convey what is not only on our minds, by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons,

but is also in the collective unconscious. escalated in popularity. Those of us living
Carl Jung describes this as a rhizome of in Austin knew every word and we sang

archetypes that connects us on a much it out loud with passion and gusto. The
deeper level of our existence. The feelings words came to my mind this morning as
and emotions evoked in a song allow us I sat down to start writing.

to feel our inherent connection to each
other; the words convey what is rising up Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas

from the unconscious that wants to be With Waylon and Willie and the boys
known. This successful life we’re livin’
Got us feuding like the Hatfields and
In my 20s, I lived in Austin, Texas where McCoys

Outlaw Country Music by Willie Nelson, between Hank Williams’ pain songs and

Waylon Jennings and Jerry Jeff Walker Newberry’s train songs and ‘Blue Eyes
permeated the radio waves as none of us Cryin’ in the Rain‘
had cell phones or internet. One favorite Out in Luckenbach, Texas ain’t nobody
feelin’ no pain

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