Slowly Going Bald

Having an iPod-ready stereo is one of the greatest things imaginable in Los Angeles, where you spend a lot of time in your car. And as much as I love having every album I own one click away, I've been falling in love all over again with my collection via the shuffle feature. Some days it's just an entertaining mix, but every now and then the randomly generated playlist is just what you feel like hearing. There's admittedly some pretty easy science behind this: I like all my music, which is why I own it and have put it on my iPod in the first place, so the shuffle feature is going to necessarily be jumping between songs I'm predisposed to love. But there's always the X-factor of how the songs sound together, and sometimes you just get lucky and find yourself coasting through 10 or 12 songs you wouldn't have thought to assemble but which nevertheless become the perfect soundtrack for that brief drive to work, to home, to anywhere. Whenever those moments happen, I plan on posting the playlist here.

Here's what I heard on my drive to work this morning:

"Take Me for Longing," Alison Krauss & Union Station (live)
"Three Days," Thermadore
"Long Black Veil," The Band
"Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)," Steve Earle
"Joe Bean," Johnny Cash (at Folsom)
"For You," Bruce Springsteen
"For No One," Emmylou Harris
"ELT," Wilco
"Fall Down Easy," Uncle Tupelo
"If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)," Merle Haggard
"Let's Go Dancing," Teitur
"One Ray of Sunlight," Phantom Planet
"Evaporated," Ben Folds Five