6th Street

I spent the evening listening to music from my youth from the Sixties on public TV. I won't bore you with a list of my favorite music from then. This is a music list that I have evolved over time for listening to at work and at home. It is not in any particular order and is by no means inclusive. I am sad to say that my wife shares very little of my taste in music.

The Tree
Moody Blues
Erik Mongrain
Bob Schneider
Working for a Nuclear Free City
Midlake
Monahans
Broken Social Scene
Yo la Tengo
The Decembrists
St Vincent
Tift Merritt
Paul Wilkes
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
Leaves that are Green
Iron & Wine
Shadowfax
Oregon
Steve Roach
Barber's Adaggio for Strings (classical piece)
Thomas Newman
Amaan Ali Khan
Deuter
Maneesh De Moor
Patty Griffin
The Flatlanders
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Joe Ely
Butch Hancock
Willie Nelson
Iris DeMent
Loreena McKinnitt
Bombay Dub Orchestra
Air
Alexi Murdoch
Winterpills
Arcade Fire
Explosions in the Sky
Pink Floyd
The Feeling Begins
Peter Gabriel
Mary Black
Sinead O'Conner
Joni Mitchell
Sting
The sound track for the movie "Little Buddha" by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Anoushka Shankar
R Carlos Nakai
Juan Luis Guerra
Clannad
Music from the movie "Philadelphia", especially "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen

I have eclectic tastes (or maybe bi-polar is more apt). I literally will go from Reckless Kelly straight to Keisha or Katy Perry (nom nom), back to Johnny Cash and Junior Brown, to Crue, back to Aldean or Miranda, then off to Steve Miller, over to SOAD or RATM or maybe a little Avenged Sevenfold, then some cool down with a little Ronnie Milsap and Jerry Reed. Whew, wore me out just thinking about it. You never know what the next song will be when the iPhone is on shuffle.

My iPod is set up just like yours. Have you been hacking my iTunes?

Gave you a +1 for Reckless Kelly

Rush.

Please don't worry about me. I'll be all better tomorrow.

I'm your huckleberry. It would take me too long to list every artist in my itunes. Rush, VH, Leppard, Dio, Cheap Trick, Crue...all staples of my youth.

Many a night at boxcars in Katy jamming to this stuff.

They are going to be at the AA Center in Dallas in November. I'm taking my 15 yr old daughter to expose her to a real band with real lyrics and that gives a shit about their craft.

Conform or be cast out.

Well, one could call it both. Boxcars was nothing more than some abandoned box cars on some long unused tracks out in the middle of nothing that was a gathering spot for us rural young uns. Thats back when Katy was still rural, not just a suburb of Houston. Think Footloose, minus all the gay dancing and Kevin Bacon.

Correct! [/chris farley]

Enya.

My wife made me do it!

HEY! I'll have you know that we have been married for just over 34 years, and I have won every wrasslin match we have ever had! Nudge! Nudge! Wink! Wink! Know what I mean? Know what I mean? ..... Even though, come to think of it, some of them wresslin matches might have had Enya on in the background.

The Neville Brothers, live with guest John Hiatt, "Yellow Moon". It is recorded live so I can't complain, but it does not compare to my CD album mix. Good gawd, that is some good voodoo gumbo. Either Aaron Neville had a spell cast on his voice at birth or there were a lot of people born squawkin' cause he got all the vocal skillz that day!