{"id":2857,"date":"2012-12-07T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:26:38","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-351-the-90s-loreena-mckennitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/07\/my-musical-evolution-part-351-the-90s-loreena-mckennitt\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 351 The 90’s Loreena McKennitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Loreena<\/a>Sometimes the spreading of musical influence is like a virus that infects a person who then passes it along to the next. We’ve talked about\u00a0how My Musical Evolution<\/em> has been\u00a0nudged into different directions by seemingly small pebbles in the road.\u00a0Here is another example.<\/p>\n

My love of Loreena McKennitt’s music\u00a0is due to bagel crumbs in a computer keyboard. Sounds silly\u00a0or unbelievable doesn’t it.\u00a0 I was at work managing the IT department for a company here in\u00a0northeast Indiana. The CFO called me complaining that her keyboard was not working properly. I went to her office to investigate. She was playing what I\u00a0now know to be Book Of Secrets<\/em> in her computer’s CD player. The song that was on was Marco Polo<\/em> and as I examined her keyboard I listened and was drawn into a an ancient world of spices and mystery.<\/p>\n

I asked\u00a0the CFO about the CD and she\u00a0enthusiastically told me of her account of accidentally hearing it at a friend’s house.\u00a0 I\u00a0feel fortunate that a pair of\u00a0random events resulted in my\u00a0revelation.\u00a0 With a can of compressed air, I blew about a bagel’s worth of crumbs out of her keyboard\u00a0and it worked again.<\/p>\n

That night by brother-in-law Dan and I went to the mall to search for Book Of Secrets. <\/em>I figured that something this obscure and wonderful would have to be found at Musicland if at all.\u00a0 We got there and they didn’t have it. On a whim I decided to check that place where they sell porcelain dragons, Indian head dresses, incense and those sticks that sound like rain when you tip them over. There it was and it was mine.\u00a0 This is a fantastic album and one you should definitely add to your collection.<\/p>\n

It opened up a new channel of world music and even added more value to my Enya <\/em>CD’s as the Celtic influence became more desirable to me.<\/p>\n

Prologue<\/em>
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