"This song takes me back to a night on a screen porch, probably around 1953," she says. "I would've been about 5."We lived on a little gravel road way out in the middle of nowhere, and the only light you could see for miles around was the single light bulb that was hanging over the ironing board where my mom was ironing. It was very late at night and very hot, which is probably why she was ironing on the porch.
"There really wasn't much room for anything except the ironing board, so that's probably why I was sitting under it, pretending to play piano on this heavy wire that ran from one wooden leg of the ironing board to the other."
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The song "Jambalaya," [she] says, "brings back a sense of peace, the security of being in that circle of light with a caring parent."
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