Ringing out the year about to expire, with a little Mule Variations by Tom Waits.
My introduction to Tom Waits may have been in 1977. My college roommate would play his Nighthawks At The Diner album. (Whenever he wasn't playing Todd Rundgren records). We had favorite lines of lyrics and spoken words from the record that we would go around quoting in our daily conversations whenever appropriate. We most likely stretched the meaning of "appropriate" a tiny bit back then.
Here I am now, almost forty years later, still enjoying his music.
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Deep Sleep in Seattle
'Deep Sleep' by Sleeping Bag. Indie Rock from 2014. A Seattle band. Came across the vinyl record at a great price in 2020 as my loca...

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The Kenny Drew Trio - 'If You Could See Me Now' From 1976 on vinyl. Piano jazz. Browsing the bins today and came across this. The gu...
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The album, "So On and So Forth" by Griffin House. From 2016. Singer/Songwriter type that a friend turned me onto. (Thanks Suzie!...
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"Wisdom of Elders" by Shabaka and the Ancestors. Just discovered. Ever since I heard "The Eraser" by Christian Scot...
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