5 Questions For Fans – Lori Allen
We’re back into a good rhythm with 5 Questions For Fans and this time we’ll hear from Lori Allen, who was picked by Josh. Lori is a mom first… a music lover second… hopefully a great friend third. She lives in Dallas with her two great kids and is blessed with so many phenomenal people that want to be part of their lives!
1) If you had to pick 2 albums that you would be the only music you could listen to from now on, which would they be?
I decided to take everything I’ve fallen in love with in the last 5 years out of this equation because y’all are pretty familiar with who I love the most now. So the answer pre-Pat Green:
2) When was the first time you realized that music was going to be an impacting force in your life? Or perhaps a “turning moment” in your love of music.
Ummm at the first breath of life… seriously it’s always been the proverbial rock in my life.
If there is a moment, it was July 25th,2004 at the Sidecar Pup in Houston, TX. It was the first time for me to see Stoney and it was a Stoney & Bleu song swap. Stoney did what he does… but more importantly it was the first time I heard him sing Into the Mystic. I was still so new to this genre and these artists but he sang a song that had meant SO much to me in my life and he let me fall back in love with it because I wasn’t able to hear that song for a million different reasons for a period of time before that night. It was that same weekend, that I was giddy going Southbound 35 to George’s Bar and I called my Meg because she was in the car in front of us and to hear the same kind of love, excitement and passion on the other end of the phone that I was feeling. Before that I’m pretty sure I had never felt like anyone truly ‘got’ me. That weekend was pivotal in all that has become my life since.
3) Do you have any words to live by… something written in a song or spoken/quoted from a musician?
“…some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic
But I had a good life all the way…” ~ Jimmy Buffet
4) Any concert/road trip/meet & greet/restaurant/hotel advice to share? Choose one…
Just GO and don’t be shy… don’t worry if you know anyone… (ok wait not so much the meet n greet, I suk at them) But if you think you don’t know anyone… you’ll find friend. One of my BEST friends I didn’t even really know at all and a friend had to bail on a road trip… “but Deidre can go.” Well alright, I knew of her but hadn’t spent any kind of real time with her. One of my most favorite road trips ever…
5) Tell us a story that sticks out in your mind when you think about all your experiences in this music scene.
I’m blessed with so many stories. Before I moved here every time I came to visit I left with a new one and swore that my heart was going to just burst because of all the love that I’d received time and time again. When I think about all of my trips ~ Memorial Day Weekend/Birthday Weekend 2005 is probably my favorite.
There isn’t a specific music memory although sitting on the couch with JP & Meg… Joc leaning against my legs while Walt made us feel more emotions in an hour than I had felt in a lifetime up to that point was pretty intense. What I think stands out the most about that weekend… loading up in Joc’s truck to head off to the airport so that I could get back to California and Meg could head back east. We all got in, shut the doors and realized we weren’t ready to leave. After four days of being together, laughing too much, smiling too much, probably drinking too much, definitely not sleeping enough… we still weren’t ready to leave each other ~ if you find friends like that… whatever the draw to each other is… don’t EVER let them go because it’s rare and special. So Meg moved to Texas… then I moved to Texas and the best is yet to be…
Who should I ask these questions to next?
Miss Joni because she is a fan that I admire and one that really does all she can both to support these artists and to really get them heard.
Previously, 5 Questions for Josh Nichols, Ryin Jones, Heather Jank, Meg Ruffing and Suzy Johnson.
Meg on May 29th, 2009
Oh, this made me laugh…and cry. Good times, great memories.