# Music ## Playing I took piano lessons for a number of years when I was younger but I can barely read sheet music now because I stopped playing. I've also learned to play guitar, bass, mandolin, violin, and a bit of trumpet and clarinet. At some point I might buy another keyboard because the better half and I have threatened to start our own band for fun. ## Listening I listen to quite a bit of music and I like all the kinds. I like to listen when I'm cooking, working, driving, washing the cars in the driveway, and sitting on the back porch. When I was a young, my father had a very large collection of albums so I got an early start. Although I was online at the time, I never personally used Napster or any Peer to Peer music sharing service. However, my friends would make me cds and share the mp3s on thumb drives so I also had a decent start on a digital collection too. I don't have a vinyl collection or frame albums because I'm not that hip. Streaming is the way for me and I use several services. I like to attend live music performances and discover new music so I try to keep up with new releases. I don't have any preferences for style excepting whatever mood or state of mind I may be in at the time. I think the key to good art, including music, is authenticity. ## Now Since about 2011, I've tracked almost most all of my listening habits and I pull that information into a page on my personal website. If you want to see an overview of what I'm listening to [**right now**](https://davidawindham.com/studio/music) @ [https://davidawindham.com/studio/music](https://davidawindham.com/studio/music). I'd imagine that these lists will grow to the thousands of tracks, so I'm only adding favorite artists when I remind myself how much I enjoy their music and I'll go in and try to rank them at some point. ## Playlists I like to create music playlist from new releases about every month or so. I started doing it when I began to migrate my listening to streaming services. I usually just date them with the year and month. I use [Last.fm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm) to keep tabs on what I listen to and I use [Exportify](https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify) to export from my Spotify playlists to convert to markdown. I sometimes run data analysis on them for fun. I like to keep a copy of them here so that I can search for an artist or track I'm trying to think of. ### Custom [Ham](playlist) / [Kris](playlist#kris) / [Greasy](playlist#greasy) / [Flashback](playlist#flashback) / [Yellow Ball](playlist#yellow-ball) / [Working](playlist#working) / [Christmas](playlist#christmas) ### Dated [2022](playlist_2020) / [2021](playlist_2020#2021) / [2020](playlist_2020#2206) / [2019](playlist_2015) / [2018](playlist_2015#2018) / [2017](playlist_2015#2017) / [2016](playlist_2015#2016) / [2015](playlist_2010) / [2014](playlist_2010#2014) / [2013](playlist_2010#2013) / [2012](playlist_2010#2012) ## Favorites ### Artists [Bill Evans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans) / [Paul Simon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon) / [David Byrne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne) / [Art Tatum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum) / [Glen Gould](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Gould) / [Johann Sebastian Bach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach) / [Erroll Garner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erroll_Garner) / [Bob Dylan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan) / [Hank Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Jones) / [Harold Budd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Budd) / [Billy Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Taylor) / [Ray Charles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles) / [Fats Waller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Waller) / [John Coltrane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane) / [Dmitri Shostakovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) / [Johnny Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Adams) / [Ahmad Jamal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Jamal) / [Terry Riley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley) / [Antonín Dvořák](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) / [Oscar Peterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson) / [James Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taylor) / [Brian Eno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno) / [Van Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison) / [Grateful Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead) / [The Beatles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) / [Duke Ellington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington) / [Thelonious Monk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk) / [Ben Harper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Harper) / [Louis Armstrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong) / [Bob Marley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley) / [Ry Cooder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder) / [Clarence Gatemouth Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_%22Gatemouth%22_Brown) / [Arcade Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_Fire) / [Talking Heads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads) / [Terry Riley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley) / [Toots Thielemans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_Thielemans) / [Pink Floyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd) / [Alexander Scriabin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin) / [Willie Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson) / [Led Zeppelin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin) / [George Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison) / [Neil Young](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young) / [J.J. Cale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Cale) / [Gregory Porter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Porter) / [Little Feat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Feat) / [Abdullah Ibrahim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Ibrahim) / [Randy Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman) / [Eric Clapton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton) / [The Kinks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks) / [Sergei Rachmaninoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff) / [Aretha Franklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin) / [Dire Straits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_Straits) / [Leonard Cohen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen) / [The Rolling Stones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones) / [Loudon Wainwright III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudon_Wainwright_III) / [David Bowie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie) / [Steely Dan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan) / [Peter Gabriel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel) / [Ron Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carter) / [Marian McPartland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_McPartland) / [Tom Petty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty) / [Oscar Peterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson) / [Taj Mahal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal) / [Robyn Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Hitchcock) / [Toots & The Maytals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_and_the_Maytals) / [George Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jones) / [Delbert McClinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delbert_McClinton) / [Gary Burton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burton) / [Warren Zevon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon) / [Blur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blur_(band)) / [Femi Kuti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Kuti) / [Joe Strummer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer) / [Pixies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie) / [R.E.M.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M.) / [Stan Getz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Getz) / [Lyle Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Lovett) / [Lee Scratch Perry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry) / [Weird Al Yankovic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic) / ### Albums [Bill Evans - The Complete Fantasy Recordings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans_discography) / [Duke Ellington & John Coltrane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_%26_John_Coltrane) / [Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Sounds_in_Country_and_Western_Music) / [Before the Flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Flood_(album)) ### Radio [KCRW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCRW) / [Radio Paradise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Paradise) / [KEXP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEXP-FM) / [KZSC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZSC) / [WFMU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU) / [WXYC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXYC) / [WNCW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNCW) / [WEVL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEVL) / [WFUV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFUV) / ### Dylan All of Bob Dylans' albums ranked by my preference: Royal Albert Hall / Before the Flood / Budokan / Basement Tapes / Highway 61 Revisited / Bringing It All Back home / Desire / Street Legal / Hard Rain / Blood on the Tracks / Blonde on Blonde / Rough and Rowdy Ways / New Morning / Dylan / Infidels / Freewheelin / Another Side / Bob Dylan / Dylan & the Dead / Triplicate / Tempest / Under the Red Sky / Slow Train / Nashville Skyline / Rolling Thunder / Self Portrait / Real Live / John Wesley Harding / Time Out of Mind / Oh Mercy / Empire Burlesque / Shadows in the Night / World Gone Wrong / Shot of Love / Saved / Planet Waves / Fallen Angels / Love and Theft / Knocked out Loaded / Unplugged / Good As I Been to You / Together Through Life / Down in the Groove