Why I Sing

Genre/Style: 90s Country

Touchstones: Tim McGraw, “Don’t Take the Girl”; Mark Wills, “I Do (Cherish You); Garth Brooks, “The Dance,” “Unanswered Prayers”

Themes: Loss, grief, music, power of music, point of view, agency

Myth: Orpheus and Eurydice

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.1-66 (8 AD)

Read Ovid's version of the myth in Latin at the Perseus Project
Read A.S. Kline's English translation at the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection