I am a huge music lover, but never pop, or "new country" and I like Radio Paradise, an online, commercial free, listener supported station, www.radioparadise.com, an eclectic, at times eccentric mix that I enjoy. I was a Sirius subscriber for years, but my fav "station" on Sirius, The Loft was gutted, the live DJs fired and Sirius hired Howard Stern (whom I loathe), so I bagged that and found Radio Paradise, which is as good, just a little different. Radio Paradise likes the Zep a little too much, just as The Loft liked the Stones a little too much, but all in all, it's good. I do miss Larry Kirwin's (Black 47) Celtic Crush music show and David Johanson's (New York Dolls) Mansion of Fun show, but not enough to give $$ to a corporation that fired creative DJs so they could hire the human scum that is Howard Stern.

I’m listening to the playlist I made for my dad. I used to hate country music but now don’t mind some of it. Anyway, he also likes Rod Stewart , Bob Seger and a mix of everything including more vintage rock. There is also some fun music on it like Banana Boat and others. My personal playlist is heavier in blues, blues rock and vintage r&b and lots of Beth Hart. It’s fun listening to daddy-O’s for a change though.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4KxStJSJmtVVcBPuwuy8na?si=mtfImrqoQA6JA4e9OH4NXw

Bestyears, it might have been me who mentioned Brandi. I LOVE HER. I had seen her a few times in concert but OMG we saw her at Madison Square Garden last fall and it was like a religious experience. I mean, not to overstate it or anything LOL.

I also love Lori McKenna. She's not terribly well known although she has now won a couple of Grammys. I have had the pleasure of meeting her several times. She's a suburban mom who writes songs that really touch me. I've had my picture taken with her, and she's autographed a couple of CD's for me.

Mark Erelli is great, too. Another local MA guy who often plays with Lori but has his own music, too. He has a new CD called Blindsided.

I have recently discovered Maggie Rogers. Listen to her song Fallingwater.

Lake Street Dive is great, too. I've seen them a few times live. I actually like their music better live than just listening to it at home.

Finally, Tedeschi Trucks Band. So good. I was introduced to them at the Ryman in Nashville by my BFF. Talk about a great way to be introduced to new music. Derek Trucks took a pic with me and my friend, and Susan Tedeschi signed a posted for her. We were 50 year old groupies waiting by the tour bus.

I like browsing NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. (You can find Maggie Rogers and TTB there.) Sometimes I just look up random musicians and watch videos on you tube with my headphones on -- tuning out the family and dogs for a while.

Sueb20, many of us are making "Post Corona Bucket Lists," and at the top of mine is to go see Brandi live. My daughter has become a fan too, so I can't wait! Love Love, love Maggie Rogers -forgot to mention her. I love the video where Pharrell (I think it was him) listens to her student demo at NYU. I'm going to look into Lori McKenna and Mark Erelli now, as well as some of your other mentions.

Maggie Rogers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrO5GTVdc-Q

And this is the Brandi concert I saw in NY:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNTGeNxjsiE

My gal Lori:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C33cyvqFqvM

Oh I could totally hang with you all-- I enjoy all that have been mentioned thus far but especially love Tadeschi Truck Band .. love love love Alexi Murdoch (I only saw him in concert once-- and then it is like he fell off the side of the earth!) .. and Neil Young is always with me.

Ashley McBryde was no where on my radar but was recently recommended to me. She has a little more country twang than I usually like but she's grown on me.. and her lyrics are great (this one could have been an anthem to my younger years).

Otherwise, during this quarantine phase, I find myself turning to old favorites.. Patty Griffin, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Cher (lol)

This video showcases two fav artists (Jonatha Brooke and Keb'mo). It's from a project where Jonatha took lyrics/words from Woody Guthrie's notebooks and put them to music).

As usual, for me, all my favorite classical composers as well as some "new" ones, thanks to my wonderful local classical radio station (WCRB - Boston). I am so grateful to have music I love available 24/7/365 -- wouldn't the composers from long ago be astounded that their music is still heard and loved!

And from yesterday's playlist for these surreal times ...

About the only music I'm listening to these days are a couple of music channels on Pluto TV. 1 is 60s oldies, and the other is called 'Ratpack' - mostly Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, with jazz greats Like Ella Fitzgerald sprinkled in. I toggle back & forth between them. Pluto has a number of music and TV, channels I like, but I've mainly settled on those 2.

😂 Y’all will gag, but most of the new music I love is “new” country! I just crack up or cry at the stories within the songs. Everything is about love, lost love, or drinking, lol. Some songs literally just put me in a happy mood...the FGL/Morgan Wallen song “Up Down” is the best for that. Love Thomas Rhett so much...his song “Centerpoint Road” from the same album with make you so nostalgic! It’s so funny, I never liked country music AT ALL, but when ds was doing college tours we were driving in TN (visiting Vandy and Sewanee) and we listened to his country playlist on Spotify. I got hooked, lol!

I also love other genres...but mostly older stuff like Bon Iver, Dispatch, stuff like that. And R&B and some Hip Hop too.

Nini, my husband is from the UK and wasn’t familiar with country music. He says that the stories in the songs are like listening to mini book tapes on his way to work . I had him listening to some old Kenny Rogers songs for the stories lol. I didn’t like country when I was young but I‘m enjoying some now. I had a great time reminiscing when doing my dads playlist. He likes a bit of everything though.

Funky art -one of my favorite songs!

My go-to music - when I have to hear something good - is always classical, especially Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mendelssohn, and a few concertos by Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky that give me chills. But I also love early Elvis Presley, Sinatra any time, here and there a Lady Gaga and Ella, and also the folk music of the sixties. The main thing about music is that I have to want to hear it, because if it's playing, I have to listen. It doesn't work as background "noise" for me.

Country music not so much except for my favorite, Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life. Love that one!

I loved everything about that school!! Ds was *this* close to going there, but ultimately the remoteness of the campus was a deal breaker. Sigh. We’re even Episcopalian...a mom on the tour who had an older child that was already a student there that the last thing they do before the parents leave the kids at orientation is have Eucharist together at the chapel. She said it was a lovely thing to do right before leaving your child. Very centering. Not gonna lie...I was really pushing hard for him to choose Sewanee!

i have a happy summer play list, heavy on Marvin Gaye (You’ve got to give it up) is a favorite), Blurred Lines, Happy, Hot Time in the City, Up on the Boardwalk, Kermit singing Rainbow Connection, the uke version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Youngbloods’ Get Together, Duffy’s Mercy, and a lot of other totally unrelated music i like to listen to in the convertible. Also Gabriel Rios, a Puerto Rican born Belgian whose old song Baby Lone Star is my top ragtop pick.

At home I am listening to an eclectic mis of early 2000s songs from Snow Patrol, Ingrid Michaelson, Butterfly Boucher, Lily Allen, BC Camplight, Amos Lee, Paolo Nutini, Indra George, Chalet, Jim Noir and Jem. And Landon Pigg, his song Magnetismo is a favorite. i try to get a weekly dose of Gilbert and Sullivan, I have all of it so listen on a rotation.

This is what I can come up with off the top of my head. We have so many thousands songs I have resisted music services like Apple because I want to further curate what we already have.

DH’s favorite music at the moment is the soundtrack to a British show called The Paradise, and at night we will listen to my bossa nova playlist while I try to get him to dance.

I love music passionately and am as happy listening to Chris Thiele and Yoyo Ma as I am the GoGos. And Beethoven, and just about every other genre except heavy metal and country.

Broadway! Usually in the car, when I am alone, and can belt them out!

Songs I found when making Dad’s playlist that I love. I would not have ventured into this realm normally.

Rainy Night in Georgia- Chris Young.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aZcUKsCUTNc

Imagine - Chris Klafford

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAp3HrQG3PQ

Dreaming My Dreams - Jamey Johnson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9JVsWomCI

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry- Roxy Perry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IUVxrMrJI

Have You Ever Seen the Rain - Willie Nelson & Paula (his daughter)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whCdxooLDpY

Other new likes... Unbelievable by Diamond Rio, Bad things by Jace Everett, Fast As You Can by Dwight Yoakam.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMPNjPpdjKU

Love your list too, Kswl..

here's another that never fails to lift my spirits-- I sing it in my head some mornings :)

When I used to drive my kids around, i would listen to their music, and I really enjoyed hearing new artists. Now they drive themselves and I tend to listen to MSNBC which just makes my blood boil and there is nothing to hum afterward. But I do it anyway go figure.

We use Spotify. I made a series of playlists by combing through greatests hits of all the decades since I was a teen. Then I made different combinations of them, a playlist for exercise, playlist for rides in the convertible, playlist for entertaining, dance music, favorite love songs, etc. I also have a few opera playlists. My fave background music is Billie Holiday.

The problem with all of my music is I am not adding new artists since I don't get new input anymore. I try different Spotify playlists and that does mix it up a bit. I had to laugh at one Playlist on Spotify, titled "Middle Aged White Pop for Dinner Parties." I did actually use it for a Middle Aged Dinner Party (no race requirements) and we all liked it.

I began using Spotify in 2018 and now go back to the "Your Top Songs 2018" made-for-me playlist... it sparks memories of the recent past, which is both sentimental and sad due to where we are now. It contains a vast mix of genres because I was exploring many when first using it. Nini--there are a few Thomas Rhett and Chris Lane songs on it, which is something I never would have listened to before Spotify. But it's got a variety, like Norah Jones, Judah and the Lion, Big Head Todd, Bach's Cello Suites, Shawn Colvin, some old-school 70s funk, David Gray (who I was supposed to see live this summer), and so on.

Love Jack Johnson, Funky. He Is one of those artists who crosses between different playlists.

Our last dinner party playlist was My Parents’ Music—Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Fifth Dimension, Henry Mancini, et al. When I looked at the Middle Aged list on Spotify I realized I am no longer middle aged, lol. The Fray was the only group / performer I’d ever heard of.

I have a niche interest in movie soundtracks as well, and find they are great as background music. for dinners or cocktails. The soundtrack for the movie Hugo is a favorite, also Cinema Paradiso, Oceans 11, various Miyazaki films (esp Howl‘s Moving Castle), and almost any of the seasons of Mad Men.

I LOVE Jack Johnson!! I got hooked on him when my kids were tiny and he did the Curious George soundtrack...which is amazing if you’ve never listened to the whole thing. “Talk of the Town“ is just my absolute fav...it makes me smile and brings back happy memories of my babies. CG was dd’s first movie in a theatre. 💕

Then I realized how hot Jack Johnson is and how good his grown up music is...and huge fan. Huge! 😂

I love soundtracks too - esp. those from the 60s. Lately, I need soothing stuff to counteract all the dire news and anxiety.

Been watching a lot of concert streams on IG, Facebook, and Youtube.

Here's a fun cover of Bob Marley by Sammy Hagar. Sammy is pretty amazing for 72!

Three Little Birds by Sammy Hagar

Also, a new Rolling Stone song: