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jayfurrI don't know how those of you who live outside major media markets stay in touch with current music -- since I don't watch TV or listen to commercial radio and am not exposed to it on the subway and so on, I'm kind of in a vacuum.
I've been working at home the last two weeks because absolutely nothing I've had to do has required me to be physically in the office, and so I've been trying to keep music playing to keep from being absolutely despondent with wintertime depression blahs.
Today I've been playing the 2015 Grammy nominees for Best Folk Album -- starting with Eliza Gilkyson's "The Nocturne Diaries". I've never heard of Gilkyson before now (she evidently has managed to get along just fine without my notice; she has been releasing albums steadily since 1969), but so far, I like what I've been hearing.
I'm fond of our Amazon Echo and Amazon Prime subscription. I can just speak clearly and tune to whatever suits my mood, adjust the volume up or down, skip to the next tune, whatever. If out of a clear blue sky I decide I *really* need to hear Devo performing "Whip It" or the Ramones doing "Blitzkrieg Bop" I can, just by speaking clearly and loudly and bam, instant gratification. The Echo can also play music from Pandora, provided I can provide a decent 'seed' song to work from, or play radio stations from around the world via IHeartRadio or TuneIn. I can't say that I've ever wanted to hear the local Catholic radio station in the French Pacific island possessions of Wallis and Futuna, but if the urge strikes me, it's all a clearly enunciated request to Echo away.
But today isn't a punk kind of day. Electric folk seems to be what's working, and I'm not gonna argue.
I've been working at home the last two weeks because absolutely nothing I've had to do has required me to be physically in the office, and so I've been trying to keep music playing to keep from being absolutely despondent with wintertime depression blahs.
Today I've been playing the 2015 Grammy nominees for Best Folk Album -- starting with Eliza Gilkyson's "The Nocturne Diaries". I've never heard of Gilkyson before now (she evidently has managed to get along just fine without my notice; she has been releasing albums steadily since 1969), but so far, I like what I've been hearing.
I'm fond of our Amazon Echo and Amazon Prime subscription. I can just speak clearly and tune to whatever suits my mood, adjust the volume up or down, skip to the next tune, whatever. If out of a clear blue sky I decide I *really* need to hear Devo performing "Whip It" or the Ramones doing "Blitzkrieg Bop" I can, just by speaking clearly and loudly and bam, instant gratification. The Echo can also play music from Pandora, provided I can provide a decent 'seed' song to work from, or play radio stations from around the world via IHeartRadio or TuneIn. I can't say that I've ever wanted to hear the local Catholic radio station in the French Pacific island possessions of Wallis and Futuna, but if the urge strikes me, it's all a clearly enunciated request to Echo away.
But today isn't a punk kind of day. Electric folk seems to be what's working, and I'm not gonna argue.
