First Cut is the Deepest

Jane Staebler

Guttenberg IA

The first song memory was The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

My family loved music and growing up in Guttenberg, I saved up enough to walk down to the pharmacy to buy that record. The drug store was on the corner of River Park Drive and Goethe where the dentist office is today.

The records were stacked in the front of the store. It was probably 35 cents and I can still remember my excitement going home with that record and playing it over and over again.

I had a passion for Rod Stewart all through the 70s until this very day. I remember babysitting for Tara Sass and after a junior high breakup, listening to First Cut is the Deepest over and over.

Rod has been a huge presence in my life and I love where his music takes me. This summer Forever Young was played for my mother-son dance at Docker’s wedding. He had a live band and there was lots of discussion about whether they could play it, but they did. Rod just continues to take me where I need to go.

First Cut is the Deepest