I like my tunes kinda lame and funny

There's a certain style of music I like, I just don't know what it's called. I found an XM radio channel (50 if you have it) called The Loft that plays the kind of music I really like.

It's kind of funny, sort of country, without being country, and quirky. I guess if you wore a lot of black turtlenecks and skinny jeans while listening to it from a loft in Soho it could be pretentious?

I just really like sinGers. Singers with an emphasis on the hard G in the word. People who can write songs and play the guitar and sound better live than on a recording. People that really just love to make music and could care less what a studio thinks, so they never become millionaires and go on Dancing With the Stars.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying.

Jim Roll is one of those sinGers. I heard an interview with him on NPR a few years ago and fell in love with this song, Blue Guitar. He said his sister died and he wrote this song for her afterwards. Man, it really puts it into perspective to know the back story, doesn't it? I can't remember if it was a suicide or she just died early.

Then there's Robert Earl Keen. I swoon over Robert Earl Keen. And Willie Nelson, but that's kind of a completely different kind of love.

I added one of my favorite Robert Earl Keen songs to my Playlist, so you can check it out down there. {Bottom o' the page.} I love it, so I hope you enjoy.





P.S. Blue Guitar isn't on Playlist and I can't figure out how to move it from my CD to an MP3 file to the player I can embed in my post. Whew, that was a lot of techno geeky stuff and I tend to hate that stuff. When I figure it out, I'll post it for your listening pleasure.