Resurrecting my "songs I know" file
I consider myself lucky to be able to say that
I've lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 1981.
One of the drawbacks to that location is the likelihood
that you'll have a long commute. I've commuted from
here to Santa Clara, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Mountain
View, Cupertino, and now Milpitas.
For much of that time, that commute has meant
spending most of an hour each way driving,
twice a day except for the days I could work at home.
Rather than just listening to the radio all the time,
sometimes I just sing.
(In 1986, I made up my own set of lyrics to Jackson
Brown's "Fountain of Sorrow", changing it to
"Mountain of Laundry".)
I suspect that I know all
the words to approximately 100 songs that I like.
I wrote up a list of them, a file containing the names
of the songs, and printed it out and kept it in the
car's glove box, so I could pull it out sometimes
to remind myself to sing something I hadn't sung in
a long time.
Unfortunately, I no longer have that printout,
and the file itself seems to have vanished from
all of my disks at home.
So, I'm starting to re-create it, and figured
that if I post it, then it might remain un-lost
due to archive.org. The songs are dominated by
singer-songwriters, mostly from the 1970's and
1990's.
So here's the first seed:
david wilcox
cheryl wheeler
steeleye span
eagles
cliff eberhardt
pierce pettis
richard shindell
jackson brown
Dar Williams
benny goodman
makaha sons of ni`ihau
dennis pavao
paul simon
harry chapin
CS&N
austin lounge lizards
cole porter
peter paul & mary
eric bogle
kathy mattea,
(jon vezner)
warren zevon/ linda ronstadt
karla bonoff (way pre-bryndle)
robert palmer
grateful dead
jack traylor
danny O'keeffe
john dowland
michael praetorious
12:23:06 AM
Random radio Weblog