Recovering Baptist

Many many years ago I didn’t really really care about music. My “non-christian” peers listened to music, which meant that I didn’t. I certainly didn’t listen to “secular” music! What little music I listened to was total crap. Somewhere along the way that changed, and I fell in love with Simon and Garfunkel. Through college my tastes progressed through just about every from of music from the psychedelic music of the 60’s to bluegrass. And it’s continued to progress.

Today we always have music playing. One of these days I hope to figure out how to make our playlist public so my two curious readers can take a peak at what we’re listening to here. For the most part, though, our playlist includes many newer artists who have fewer than two albums each on major labels. Artists like Evanescence, Jem, Imogen Heap, Anna Nalick, Butterfly Boucher, Eisley (thank you girls), Mute Math, Electronic Soft Parade, and the Strokes dominate our house. Older favorites like the Beatles, Johnny Cash, and Simon and Garfunkel are in the mix, too. But in the past two weeks I’ve rediscovered another old favorite - the guitar god himself.

When my wallet full of CD’s was stolen years ago I lost my Clapton collection, and I never bothered to replace it. Now, thanks to my favorite music store, I can afford to rediscover my college days. While I knew 24 Nights would still sound great, I didn’t recall the production on Unplugged being that great. It’s always nice to find out that something you used think sounded good still does. And now I’m catching up on his other albums, including Me and Mr. Johnson. All I can say is wow. Suddenly I’m in love with the blues again.

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