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Homage to Roy Orbison

Homage to Roy Orbison Irene McKinney Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2004, pp. 68-69 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0018 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/431046/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 17:43 GMT from JHU Libraries Homage to Roy Orbison If I can touch the voice of Roy Orbison singing "only in dreams" and if I can swallow the sweet pudding of his song then why shouldn't a piece of music fill in for human contact? Maybe it does for a second or two, but life is long, or we are, in our minds, and the singing we do gives us a taste and not a meal. And what would happen without it? Would we reconcile since there would be no contrast, no lift of Roy's dulcet tones to guide us up to immense heights of one-pointed ecstasy? So why not sing as hard and deep as we can? Why not feel out the song-nerve and trace its trajectory? I think that in the voice's rise and wail we finally wake and hear the voice of an angel. "Sweet dreams baby" Roy throbs. If so, we go past abrasions and promontories of broken stony http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Homage to Roy Orbison

McKinney, Irene.
Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Irene McKinney Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2004, pp. 68-69 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0018 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/431046/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 17:43 GMT from JHU Libraries Homage to Roy Orbison If I can touch the voice of Roy Orbison singing "only in dreams" and if I can swallow the sweet pudding of his song then why shouldn't a piece of music fill in for human contact? Maybe it does for a second or two, but life is long, or we are, in our minds, and the singing we do gives us a taste and not a meal. And what would happen without it? Would we reconcile since there would be no contrast, no lift of Roy's dulcet tones to guide us up to immense heights of one-pointed ecstasy? So why not sing as hard and deep as we can? Why not feel out the song-nerve and trace its trajectory? I think that in the voice's rise and wail we finally wake and hear the voice of an angel. "Sweet dreams baby" Roy throbs. If so, we go past abrasions and promontories of broken stony

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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