Music means more to me than just about anything in the world. It's provided a soundtrack for my life from the time of my first memories of my grandmother singing Southern Baptist hymns on the front porch swing and the lush but spare sound of 70s country radio that was always playing when I was a child. It wasn't exactly Footloose in our house, but rock music (really, anything aside from country and church music) was frowned upon, so naturally I latched onto pop radio, and eventually metal and hip-hop and then everything flannel until I discovered college radio and had my horizons exploded in every direction.
I still love a lot of the stuff I was listening to at every point along the way. It's like comfort food for my ears and my soul. But I'm also driven to restlessly, endlessly, seek new (well, new to me, anyway, as a great deal of that seeking looks backwards to the the 70s and earlier) sounds to digest. At the risk of indulging in cliché, exploring everything that music has to offer is a journey that's defined my life. This is a blog about that journey.
I'm not exactly sure how this blog will take shape. I plan to write about the things I'm listening to, maybe revisit some musical memories. I'm sure I'll do some geeky, self indulgent shit like rank every album by whatever band I'm exploring at the moment. But I'm a seeker, not a collector. If I had a lot of disposable income, I'd have a shit-ton of records because I love records. But these days I do most of my crate digging digitally, through YouTube Music and various streaming services. So this is not a blog about owning music, it's a blog about exploring music and probably, as often as not, over-thinking it.
