Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

[MarkMc1990]

This was a song that was always just kind of "there" for me but I came across the Red Rocks version and I'm ADDICTED to it now!!! I think I have to insert it in my Top 10

[LittleSpacey]

It has always been a "go-to" Stevie song for me. It was instantly important to me. So glad you are appreciating it now!

[Etisl]

This was a song that was always just kind of "there" for me but I came across the Red Rocks version and I'm ADDICTED to it now!!! I think I have to insert it in my Top 10

I love that you love this song.

It is a very special song to me, because of the many things that were going on in my little young life back then... :o) It is a song that I listen to still, and when it is performed live........it still makes me cry for happy and not so happy reasons....

The happy part, is because it takes me right back to 1985-1986... Before the world had tainted me (JK). But, I was so young back then...and it takes me to my youth, it makes me smile, it makes me cry, but always (even with tears in my eyes) always....it makes me smile. It really touches my heart. It is one of those songs that seems was almost written as a love letter to her fans....for all of the years of loving her music, almost like a special little gift of music.

[michelej1]

[click to see a picture of two girls at the memorial fountain]

by MSO at the "My Send Off" blog

https://mysendoff.com/2013/12/song-for-emma/?utm_source=rss

Emma Walsh was like any other young child who loved going to the playground just up the street from her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her mother, Stefany Rhodes took her there almost every day. Her father Joe Walsh accompanied them when he was not on tour. Emma, was in her mother’s car on her way to a morning play date when the car was hit by a driver who went through a stop sign. She succumbed to her injuries. She was just four weeks shy of her third birthday.

Later that year Joe Walsh released his first solo album (he was to join the Eagles a year later) called So What on which he had written and recorded a Song for Emma in his daughter’s memory.

Ten years later Stevie Nicks was touring with Joe Walsh and he took her on a side trip through the snow covered mountains of Colorado. The trip took two hours and Stevie admitted in the Timespace album liner notes that she did a lot of complaining about inconsequential things during the drive. It was then that Joe told her the story of losing his daughter. He told her how she loved going to a particular park and that the only thing she complained about was that she was too little to reach the water fountain. They reached the park and there was a small fountain with a plaque that was engraved with these words.

“This fountain is given in loving memory of Emma Walsh
April 29, 1971-April 1, 1974″