My wife and I love music, and our children showed the same inclination from an early age, whether through nature, nurture or both. We always had some cassette playing in the car when they were small – often The Beatles, Bob Dylan or Bob Marley, as I recall – and we played loads of CDs in the house.
The first artist Sean independently got into was Eminem, I think … we were a bit concerned about some of the lyrics (there was a lot of anti-Eminem hysteria among God-fearin’, right-thinkin’ folk at the time), but Sean assured us that there was nothing to worry about, and we could see that Eminem was a serious and talented artist. Continue reading