Another Playlist

Tired and partially confused by life, so why not another playlist? Sometimes it feels like all we have is music.

• The Stray Birds - Third Day In a Row .... "Now it's the third day in a row, seeing the sun come up. Some things take a lifetime to learn, so you make em up."
• Greensky Bluegrass - Old Barns .... Saw them one chilly January evening in McMinnville, OR. Afterwards drove the 25 miles home feeling like I was on a cloud, with this song playing, volume up, head bobbing, available fingers and toes tapping. My idea of heaven on earth.
• Mandolin Orange - Golden Embers

It's feeling like a Newgrass - Americana type of playlist. Seems to be going in that direction. Some evenings just call for an acoustic guitar, violin and mandolin. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In fact there's much that's great with that.

• Nickel Creek - When You Come Back Down .... Sometimes all it takes is a great song title to suck me in. Or a great line of lyric: "My greatest fear will be, that you will crash and burn and I won't feel your fire."
• Nickel Creek - Reasons Why
• The Mammals - Ashokan Farewell .... If anyone reads this and checks this song out and it's the first time you hear it, well it's the first time for me as well. Instrumental, bittersweet and yearning.
• The Infamous Stringdusters - Walking On the Moon .... Their take on The Police song.
• Steve Noonan - Buy For Me The Rain .... An oldie, from the 1960's. I first heard it on a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band record. Being a longtime Jackson Browne fan from his first album onward, eventually I would read of songwriting friends and contemporaries, Greg Copeland and Steve Noonan, who wrote the song.

Sometimes one thing leads to another. Especially true with YouTube music videos .....

• Jorma Kaukonen - Hesitation Blues ..... This started playing after the previous song.