Beauty In The Mundane

If you said “Rainy day in Campbeltown” to a Campbeltonian it wouldn’t have quite the same elegance and resonance as, for instance a “Rainy Night In Georgia” does.

Campbeltown rain is plain “rain”. Mundane.

Why is that?

For us of course the particular rain in the song seems to evoke something a little bit more exotic and sultry. It’s almost certainly referring to a warmer rain than the Campbeltown variety, isn’t it? And of course the song in which we hear the words helps to breathe life into the association.

I imagine though, that if you actually live in Georgia, Georgian rain, as a title for a song, is equally as uninspiring, as Campbeltown rain might be to myself and other local residents.

But perhaps the job of a songwriter is simply to find that beauty in the mundane.

In which case Tony Joe White, the song writer behind this one, did a great job.