A musical experiment

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.