The Music of Bruce W. Stevenson and Friends

During Covid I joined Southern Songwriters. We met online each week and each week we were given a suggested prompt. This song was written simply based on the prompt “100” and I wrote this song in less than two hours. A few months later, I sent it to Dave Johnson to add bluegrass instruments – which he did superbly – and suddenly I was a bluegrass songwriter. Don’t let the light-hearted sound fool you – getting old can be seriously sad and lonely! There is a good mix of humor and seriousness in this one, though. I really do wish for a time when there will be no more war and no more poverty! Heaven, perhaps?

Virtually no family has escaped the scourge of dementia. When it first makes its appearance, in little barely perceptible ways, it can be terrifying. Those of us who have lived through it with a loved one are afraid whenever memory lapses start to appear. The light-hearted sound of this song belies the serious subject.