Fifty year plus years ago, I was discovering new artists, who would become lifelong companions. Today, many of them are still making music – and I’m still listening. This playlist The Fifty Years Later Playlist looks back at where they started.. and where they are now. The seeds of this …

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Here’s a playlist filled with some of my favorite songs from the late 60s and early 70s. “It’s A Lovely Day” Tracks 1-3 The Youngbloods and Jesse Colin Young The playlist opens with two songs from The Youngbloods.  First, “It’s a Lovely Day” a song that always puts me in …

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Just about every week I visit the Roots Music Report to check out new music. Like everything associated with this blog over the last few years, I continued to listen to new music. However, I seldom wrote about the music I discovered! Anyway I am going to try change that …

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Now that playlists are a major part of this blog I get to do the fun stuff – making the playlist! I grew up as an only child. And while I had a close  knit neighborhood of friends to play with, along with school friends,, at the end of the …

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So last weekend, Saturday to be exact, I went to Trader Joe’s for the  first time in a long while. Since the trip takes about 25 to 30 minute I decided to listen to a couple of new albums on Spotify. On the way there, I listened to Down Home …

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