If you need a musical diversion...(aka An Otis Redding kind of night)

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10. Wow, such a great story...

My dad, likewise, introduced me to Otis, but he was a Beatles fan at heart. When he would put me to bed at night, he'd play "Blackbird" on his guitar. When he was dying from the effects of Type 1 diabetes, he could barely respond to us at the end, but the night he passed, I put headphones on him and played him "Blackbird" and saw him smile for the last time.

My seven year old son was brought into our lives the year after my dad's death. We've always put music on in his room every night to help him sleep, going back to when he was an infant. The one song he has to hear every night before bed is "Blackbird". It's like his thing now. I was more of a singer than a guitarist, but how I wish I could play that song for my son like my dad did for me.