One-thirty in the morning. Driving home from work. On the radio a man from South America speaking of this suitcase of old recordings on tape that had belonged to his grandfather that he came across and spending days going through all these tapes. And one song in particular that fascinated him ….. and it's not clear if he knew the song title or not ….. but then some time later going out and walking around his town and coming across a older, blind woman on the street playing that same song on an accordion. And how she knew the history of the song and the connection that he made with her in that place and moment. He had looked extensively for information about the song and finally stumbled across it "in the memory of a wonderful blind woman."
And I'm just fascinated by this stuff.
BBC Outlook
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