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When I was a yonger man, it seemed important to myself and my peers, to have mental lists up for discussion and under constant scrutiny and modifications.

What's your favorite book?  Who's your favorite author?  What are your top ten favorite movies? Who are the best songwriters?  And the ever marvelous, if you could only have one album on a deserted island, which one would it be?

Such fabulous exercises for getting to know friends better, assessing their tastes and showing off.

But as I've gotten older, I've actually become more open minded and less opionated.

I don't like the same things I liked when I was 20.  Sometimes I don't even like the same things I liked 6 months earlier.

The world is too full of possibilities to ever pin oneself down.

Wait. Did I say Sammy Cahn?  That was so 5 minutes ago.  Now, I'd swear it's Burt Bacharac.

Or Kris Kristofferson.

Or Tyler the Creator.

My gf just got me a double-disc collection of Van Morrison.  He's always been nothing more than the "Brown Eyed Girl" guy to me.  That's unfortunate, because he's got a lot of stuff I'm just now enjoying, and I'd have to say Brown Eyed Girl is not all that indicative of the bulk of his career.  He's at the top of my current favorite singer/songwriter list.   

Speaking of Time After Time, anyone ever hear Willie's version of that Cyndi Lauper song?

The hell you say.  Really?...  never heard it.
Willie doing Cyndi Lauper?....   I just can't see it.  That's like Conway doing My Sharona.

Hmmm, that was supposed to be an embedded Youtube video.  

That was such an awesome version of that song.

At the time, Bono had a great quote, he said, "Trent Reznor was born to write that song, but Johnny Cash was born to sing it..."

Waylon's all good, too.

They called it Outlaw country because it went against the grain of the Nashville sound, but Waylon's songs definitely also had a real "outlaw" aspect to them, that Willie's never did.

Later they started calling it "Progressive Country."  My dad was the GM at KOKE-FM at the time, and his radio station promoted all the big concerts from Willie, Waylon, Kris, Jessi Colter, Johnny Cash, and so many others.  As a little tike, I got to go backstage and meet many of those legends.  Pretty cool.