Premonition

As told by Catherine at Russ’s wake and edited by Kathy

I didn’t get to spend as much time with Russ as I would have liked to, and of course, he was always open-armed, and he loved me like I was one of his own kids. One year, 1995, I came down to Boston for some reason and I was staying with the whole Meekins clan, and Cameron, you were about 2. And we were driving in you guy’s Suburban and some Sarah McLaughlin song comes on and you started howling. You hated it. And Russ says, “This kid loves music. I tell you what. This kid is going to be a musician. He knows so much about music already. I mean he knows what he likes and what he doesn’t like. I mean, this kid is going to be a musician.”

I don’t know if Russ willed that to be true or, you know, had a sixth sense, but he sure put his money on the right horse, Cam. I just remember riding around in that Suburban. I don’t even remember where we were going but I remember “He’s going to be a musician!”

(Today, Cam is famous rap artist.)