I'm not a very good blogger these days, but just popping in to embed this little wormhole for you. This list was inspired by my morning's vinyl play of "It's a Beautiful Day," the album I may have played most when getting high at age 19. I was working in the undergraduate library of the University of Tennessee Knoxville as a page, one of those "just got in the employment door by sheer determination and persistence" employees whose job was to shelve books all day, pushing around a little cart organized by Dewey Decimal number one, after another, after another. I was writing poetry pretty seriously, though I had no idea what I was doing but maybe singing in prose, and living on White Avenue in a house with a balcony where we'd smoke weed and often tripped on game days, watching the swirling orange-clad fans parking on our street for the mile away walk to Neyland Stadium. I suppose this is the place where I admit all that, now that Mary Jane is legal in 24 states for recreational use and a huge economy is built around hemp-based THC and CBD, which are legal (often with restrictions) in all but 2 states. Iowa and Idaho.
Anyway, to the music. I may throw away another hour sometime adding to it, but here are 18 hours and 13 minutes of my 1969-70 playlist, first enjoyed mostly on cassette or vinyl turned up LOUD. Here, I recommend you listen on the Spotify app and hit "Smart Shuffle" for the best experience. Here...is...
