In honor of Sam Cooke (& Byron)'s birthday, I'll talk about music a little. I don't listen a whole lot because it's a distraction to most of what I do but when I'm not listening to my faves, I put on Freegal, a free variation on Spotify, once or twice a week & see what comes up. Lately a swell Dwight Yoakam album called Brighter Days; a bunch of Buck Owens; some Van Morrison - whose real name, I discovered, is George Ivan Morrison - I've never been crazy about him & this'll be it for a long time; Rosie Flores; various joikers - indigenous Arctic singing; & the recently dead Joe Ely & Bob Weir/Grateful Dead.
A month ago or a month from now it could be an entirely different list. Blind Willie McTell, Johnny Cash, Bruce are usually in heavy rotation.