Explain Myself

I realize any normal person isn't going to sit and listen to all that I've posted. However, some people in my life have REALLY appreciated me making them cd's of shit I think they'll like and probably never heard before. It's not as much as when I was younger, but like right now there are two people who have asked me to make them cd's for their birthdays over buying them something or taking them somewhere. I take it extremely seriously. I have them list a few of the songs that they jam to the most and then I listen to them a few times and start a playlist, where I'll put like 50-75 songs. Listen to the songs they've told me about again and think about what I hear them jamming to when they drive and stuff, and go thru a few cycles of deleting songs until I have about 20 tracks.

I love to share music, movies, and other types of art. I just love it. These are all songs I think are the cream of their genre. I'm always on the search for new music and when I share stuff like that, I always get exposed to new people. So I apologize if you think that annoying, but I'm operating in the mindset that you might listen to a few and end up buying a cd or downloading a certain artist. It's increasingly hard to find someone who you can play from start to end and I feel that people are backing away from music because of it. Which is sad. So here are some people who's work you can do that with from what I listed.

Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott (multiple grammy wins)
John Mayer Trio - Continiuum
Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
Jolie Holland - Escandida
Queen Latifah's - Dana Owen's Album
Any Nina Simone collection
Any Astrud Gilberto collection
Any John Lee Hooker collection

I also appreciate you sharing anything with me that you really like. That is how I got into Paul Simon who I feel I cannot live without now and Jack White. For some reason I had passed them off before they were shown to me. I LOVED those Billie clips, because I had never heard them before, even though I have quite a few of her songs on my computer. Ok, I'll leave you with one more clip and then I'm done for probably a long time. By the way, if you'd like to brag about seeing BB King, I'd love to be on the receiving end of that. I feel like I've waited too long and I'm pissed that I didn't pay for the Riding With The King tickets - they were just a little too expensive for me. This is a Tori Amos studio recording of a Jazz Standard for the movie "Mona Lisa Smile" which she performed in the film in costume and it is fucking brilliant.