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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. 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 to keep tabs on what I listen to and I use 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 / Kris / Greasy / Flashback / Yellow Ball / Working / Christmas

Dated

2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012

Favorites

Artists

Bill Evans / Paul Simon / David Byrne / Art Tatum / Glen Gould / Johann Sebastian Bach / Erroll Garner / Bob Dylan / Hank Jones / Harold Budd / Billy Taylor / Ray Charles / Fats Waller / John Coltrane / Dmitri Shostakovich / Johnny Adams / Ahmad Jamal / Terry Riley / Antonín Dvořák / Oscar Peterson / James Taylor / Brian Eno / Van Morrison / Grateful Dead / The Beatles / Duke Ellington / Thelonious Monk / Ben Harper / Louis Armstrong / Bob Marley / Ry Cooder / Clarence Gatemouth Brown / Arcade Fire / Talking Heads / Terry Riley / Toots Thielemans / Pink Floyd / Alexander Scriabin / Willie Nelson / Led Zeppelin / George Harrison / Neil Young / J.J. Cale / Gregory Porter / Little Feat / Abdullah Ibrahim / Randy Newman / Eric Clapton / The Kinks / Sergei Rachmaninoff / Aretha Franklin / Dire Straits / Leonard Cohen / The Rolling Stones / Loudon Wainwright III / David Bowie / Steely Dan / Peter Gabriel / Ron Carter / Marian McPartland / Tom Petty / Oscar Peterson / Taj Mahal / Robyn Hitchcock / Toots & The Maytals / George Jones / Delbert McClinton / Gary Burton / Warren Zevon / Blur / Femi Kuti / Joe Strummer / Pixies / R.E.M. / Stan Getz / Lyle Lovett / Lee Scratch Perry / Weird Al Yankovic /

Albums

Bill Evans - The Complete Fantasy Recordings / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane / Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music / Before the Flood

Radio

KCRW / Radio Paradise / KEXP / KZSC / WFMU / WXYC / WNCW / WEVL / 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