SARA - Fleetwood Mac (Acoustic Cover) by Johnny Alonso
This song brings back so many family childhood memories especially summer vacation and making the long haul pilgrimage to Disneyworld and hitting all the stops along I-95. As a kid I had one favorite stop that I always look forward to (no not South of the Border but yes that was my second fave) I had an Aunt Carmen who use to take care of my brother and I when we lived in New York before she got married and moved to Moncks Corner South Carolina. She was my favorite aunt growing up. She taught me how to ride a bike, to respect my elders and since she wasnt from this country she taught me how to stand up for myself - she taught me how to fight :) She like my mother, would encourage me to get into the lively arts - to sing, play piano and join stage plays at school. We use to have a "festa" in our old neighborhood in Queens and shes always ask/tell me to get on a table and sing to the nonnas. My Aunt Carmen and My Uncle Chris had a small home on a 3 acre lot. She grew corn, tomatoes, strawberries, string beans she even had a couple apple trees. She called that side of the property her "farm" the rest of the property had 10 million kinds of plants which meant a lot of bees. The house was a small but very cozy two bedroom with a kitchen that always had a light on and small black and white tv on some fuzzy channel, and something was ALWAYS cooking. The living room was lined with dark wood paneling and some shag carpet definitely from the 70s with a comfortable sofa and a big box family room television - the kind you had to walk up and turn the dial yourself. She had a powerful a/c unit that pretty much iced the family room but as soon as you walked down the hall or into the kitchen it was hot. The front door had a metal awning where you (read the full story on my YouTube post under my Acoustic Covers Playlist)