ok i'm hitting you with one of my favorite songs: "til a tear becomes a rose." i first heard this in a transcendent version by keith whitley and lorrie morgan (who were married; i believe whitley had just died of an alcohol overdose when the thing was released: the thing is so sad and full of love), around 1990, when i was loving in nashville. you know how it is? when you can picture the corner you were driving by when the thing came on. i don't have that in an uploadable version: only lp and itunes. so i'm putting it up in a version by john and fiona prine. it's a lovely, rough-hewn version: i particularly like fiona's performance.