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A musical experiment

April 30th, 2006 by Bill

I’m not sure what I think of this Pandora thing I’ve tossed into the sidebar but I’ve put it there for the moment as an experiment. I suppose it would have been almost as easy to simply code in links … but then I’d have to hunt down places to link to.

It’s really just there as a short list of what I’m listening to these days. I tend to go in phases. My current phase causes some friends of mine a degree of alarm because it’s kind of jazz, folk, country, blues with a smidgeon of alternative. I haven’t heard anything rock, hip-hop, pop … or basically mainstream that hasn’t sounded like a billion other things I’ve heard over and over.

The most recent additions to my music?

- Marc Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – All the Roadrunning
- Bruce Spingsteen – We Shall Overcome: the Seeger Sessions
- The Little Willies – The Little Willies
- Elvis Costello – My Flame Burns Blue
- Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

I’ve also got a fistful of Duke Ellington discs that I’ve picked up over the last year – plus Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong and so on.

Anyway … I really never know what I’m going to like. But for the moment this is what’s catching my ear.

Oh … my favourite song on All the Roadrunning is the song Love and Happiness, with the wonderful lines:

And if I could only have one wish,
darling then it would be this:
love and happiness for you.

7 Responses to “A musical experiment”

  1. on 30 Apr 2006 at 6:50 pm1 Kris

    Bill, how do you discover all of this new music. I find myself listening to the same things over and over again . . .

  2. on 30 Apr 2006 at 7:29 pm2 Sizzle

    oooh! i love your taste in tunes. i am off to track them down. :)

  3. on 01 May 2006 at 1:53 am3 Bill

    I’m not sure how I find it … I think I just troll around and latch on to things I like. It’s not all that obscure - just not American Idol material.

    btw … I’ve spent the entite day listening to the Knopfler & Harris disc and the Springsteen. I love ‘em.

  4. on 01 May 2006 at 1:40 pm4 Blonde Vigilante

    Better than the water still caught up in your ear.

  5. on 01 May 2006 at 6:16 pm5 Sizzle

    loving the little willies. :)

  6. on 01 May 2006 at 6:20 pm6 Bill

    i didn’t realize till I got the disk that norah jones was a little willie.

    oh … and i read somewhere that while the name has a bit of an innuendo to it they actually called themselve the little willies after willie nelson.

  7. on 02 May 2006 at 2:57 pm7 Flounder

    I love Mark Knopfler, but I don’t know if I’ll like that CD.

    And The Boss doing gospel? Puh-lease.

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