Things I Love: being alive, MUSIC, Music, and more music, good books,vinyl,designing jewelry & silversmithing, Moosejaw t-shirts(I have 8 so far and the collection is growing), good wine, the beach and the ocean, cycling, (obsessed with the Tour De France!), being an aunt, hiking, camping, country rides on sunny days and snowy nights, gravel roads, front porch swings, laughing, photography(I love all but truly love black & white),traveling any and everywhere, The Ryman(my home away from home), the walk to and from the bar, drinking moonshine in the country underneath a full moon(nothing beats it!), my friends and family, the winter, giving someone the perfect gift, Amsterdam, random acts of kindness, art, the mountains, bourbon, singing in my car, sleeping in, down comforters, thunderstorms, being a CHB(lol), LOVE the hooky hocky(the jury is still out on the spelling of that one and funny if you know what that means. You know who you are!)
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings, WILCO, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, Tarbox Ramblers, Greg Brown, Pieta Brown, Old Crow Medicine Show, Alejandro Escovedo, J. Tillman, Paul Burch, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, M. Ward, HEM, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Nina Simone, Bill Fay, Neil Young(he saved my soul), Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Pink Floyd, Beastie Boys, Van Morrison, Big Bill Broonzy, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers, Patsy Cline, Ted Hawkins(if you don't know him, you should, I recommend 'The Final Tour' album), Bob Dylan, The Felice Brothers, Robyn Hitchcock, The Roseline, The Biscuit Burners, Drive-By Truckers, The Everybodyfields, Mark Pickerel, Cat Power, Steep Canyon Rangers, Wayne Cochran, Chris Scruggs, Bill Withers, Smithsonian Folkway Recordings, Desert Sessions, Magnolia Electric Co., Beatles, WEEN, David Bowie, Django Reinhardt, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Queens of the Stone Age, Woody Guthrie, Buddy Holly, John Hartford, Etta James, old bluegrass and old time, New Grass Revival(always preferred original lineup), The Rolling Stones, and so on and so on and so on....
Please, if you get Sundance Channel, try to catch this documentary sometime. It is too great!
Austin City Limits, Survivorman, Later...with Jools Holland, Beat Route, anything on Sundance Channel (especially Iconoclasts, The Green) , LOST, literally glued to the tv day and night during July for the Tour de France, M*A*S*H is a guilty pleasure, the ones before Trapper and Henry left, Conan O'Brien, if you haven't seen the episode where he went to Finland, try to catch it on reruns, the funniest Conan EVER