littlechrissy's hottest 100 - number 65

Look, in all honesty, I could have posted any one of Tracy Chapman's songs on here and it would be a worthy addition to my Hottest 100.
The woman is a goddess.
Her voice... *sigh*
I feel clenched up in the stomach listening to her - her lyrics have such depth and are imbued with an ethereal, melancholy beauty.
The reason I chose Baby Can I Hold You is because I have just acquired my Dad's acoustic guitar, and it's the ONLY song I can play and sing at the same time. And so I have sat at home on the couch, listening to the rain, singing this over and over.

I've decided to get guitar lessons this year. I miss having music in my life. Yes I listen to a lot, but I miss MAKING music.

I learned piano from age 4 through to when I was 18, and learned saxophone for a while too. I was Ok at both but too lazy to practice enough to be really really good. However I still learned enough that I could pick up a piece of music and play it. And while I was too young and naive in high school to recognise how lucky I was to be able to do that, the fact that I cannot simply do this every day (I live in an apartment with no room for a piano) leaves me with a little empty hole in my life.
However the guitar fits in my apartment. And so I shall start creating again.

Because 2011 is the year of the creative, don't you know?