My Year End Music List...

 Every media source is pushing the best of, most listened to, most streamed, biggest fan and I'm sure there is some negative Ned or Nellie that has put out a worse of the year music list. I have news for you. If you used a streaming service they picked the music for you. They pushed on you like hard drugs. 

I picked my own music from this back room in my house. This is an old photo because it's not quite as neat as you see here. Seems like the drums are stacked a little higher along the right side of the room right now and there are piles of cds and longer record stacks on the floor but that just means I'm letting the grandkids run wild with instruments and I'm picking the music to suit my mood. Sometimes I don't put it up because I play it again.  

What usually happens is in the evening Cathy might be at the computer inputting some St. Vincent de Paul paperwork from the day while I cook and pick records. If I'm cooking French or Spanish or catfish the selection is appropriate. It gets more appropriate as the evening wears on.  

I did buy some new music this year. It was mostly by bands and artists I have seen and a few I might even know as knowing goes in the digital age and have met . There was a Christmas release by Eight Foot Manchild, a new Preservation Hall Jazz Band cd, an old Drums and Tuba album, (they give them away free but I paid them) a Cockaphonix , a Red Barrat, and an Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band. If that looks like it's heavy on the brass band thing I think I also bought singer songwriter James McMurtry's new one and the last album by the late Todd Snider.  

I did not keep count of the used records but there were not many since I am minorly worried about this back of the house room becoming unlevel and uncoupling from the rest of my home and falling into the backyard. I am close to the end but stuff has to last me. As a precaution I did give away about 20 records because I bought these. That Artie Shaw, a compilation released in 1956 is a gem. 

Don't let them push music or any content on you. Pick your own. It does not need to be the latest greatest. It could even be from me.