China Grove

Something that I found pretty interesting happened to me this week.   It was a very odd coincidence, or was it?

I got up on Sunday morning and decided to walk to the store to get breakfast.   I do that a lot on the weekends.   I like to get up, walk down to the store and wander around until I find something to eat.   Of course, we’ve been over this behavior before in a previous post.   In any case, it was about 8:30 in the morning and I was walking down to the store when a song popped into my head out of nowhere.    It was a song that I like, but one that I hadn’t heard in a least a year, maybe way more.   It was China Grove by the Doobie Brothers.   

“… and his buddies with their Samurai swords, you can even hear the music at night”, I sang away as walked.

Well, that might have been the end of the story, and quite a boring story it would have been but then the strange part happened.   I listen to the radio station KNRK when I drive, almost all of the time.   It’s a little hard to define their format anymore, but they mostly play music from the 80s, 90s, and new stuff.   It’s safe to say they that it would be very rare day that they would play any Doobie Brothers.    Each morning though they do a segment called the “Eight at Eight”.   It a group of 8 songs that have a common thread and yesterday morning they were doing a sibling theme.     The last song, which came on at 8:30, was China Grove.  

Prescience?   I think so.