There are a handful of ways that you can find the truth.

But music is one of those that speak to our soul.

It's part of our DNA, our experience.

It is just a irremvable part of our human story.

It allows us to express something deeper than we can imagine or express in words.

Music comes before words.

In America, music means something even more special, beginning with Thomas Edison's invention of the photograph that was here, which allowed music to be recorded for the first time in human history.

In the time since we have given the world Elvis, the blues, rock and roll, I would say country music as well, but I think that's more Scottish.

But everything else distinctly American jazz, distinctly American.

Any American cultural landmark good or bad is attached to a song or an album.

New York, New York, I left my heart in San Francisco.

It is also there were musical movements, the 60s.

On September 11th, a little bit of America's innocence died right in front of us and so much of that day is still inexpressible.

But in the quiet days that followed 9-11, a song by today's guests spoke to us.

Spokesw us when we needed it most and it was everywhere.

You heard it. If you lived in those times, you heard it and you know it.

And I'm willing to bet at least one of the times you heard it, there were tears in your eyes.

And that's because it connected you to that moment and to America, to America's heroes.

When you listen to it, you understand the struggles of the every man and superman.

And I'm not talking about the superman of 2021 whose struggles is which outfit should I wear?

I'm talking about the Christlike Superman who inspired us to be more heroic, truth, justice, and the American way.

This puts our guest today into a rare category of musicians willing to express American values let alone doing it in a memorable way.

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