I am a child of the 1970’s. I was too young to truly enjoy the music of the ‘60’s (and all the drugs that went with it). Instead, I was ‘lucky’ enough to go through adolescence during that most wonderful epoch of music known as the Disco Era. Unlike many of my peers in high school, however, I carried with myself something they didn’t – an appreciation for musical genres of previous generations.

Being from a fairly tight-knit family, growing up I was regularly exposed to the music of my parents and grandmother. As a result, I often found myself listening to songs my fellow teens mocked, if they bothered to listen to them at all.