Mary Grant Hall

In my short life, I have been fortunate enough to go on trips around the world, live across the ocean, and make friends from all walks of life that I will have and remember forever. Now obviously, I cannot always be with all of my friends and family all of the time, nor can I constantly be traveling and neglecting my responsibilities at home, but this does not mean that I want to forget them. "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson will always take me to my dads kitchen on school nights when we would cook dinner together and solve all of the worlds problems while making some new culinary creation he had conjured up. When I listen to the Ed Sheeran album "X", it reminds me of the nights I spent in the home of a dear friend in England and how I felt like I had the whole world in front of me. Any time I hear the Mumford and Sons song "Holland Road", I feel like I have been picked up and whirled back in time to 2014 where I am practically skipping up St Leonard's Hill in Windsor on my way home from my very first day at work. If I play "Colder Weather" by Zak Brown Band, I am brought to tears by the memory of my best childhood friend and I on a road trip, terrified because we were about to set off to college and had no idea what to expect. Music is the greatest history book a person can have, because a sound can bring back a memory so easily. You can read about the past in books all day long, but the best way to experience the mood of the era, or to be thrown back into your favorite memory, is to listen to the songs that came out of it.