Girl, Put Your Records On (Part 2)
I need a new playlist for the mood I’m in.
It’s a quiet, moody, contemplative kinda mood that I’m in these days. Would love to crawl in a safe, dark hole and stay there with my thumb in my mouth. But light is the only thing that’s keeping me alive. Feeling kinda weepy, but don’t have cause to outright cry. Sad and joyful in the same breath. Got some decisions to make. But they will require 
me to revisit some old places in my mind to find the answers I’m after. Don’t want to go there, but I gotta go to get where I need to be. Don’t wanna have to do anything, but don’t want not to be needed. Don’t wanna talk, but don’t wanna be alone.
Watchin’ God watchin’ me.
One of those times when I wish I were a poet.
Never fails. Something about the change of season, especially the dawn of autumn, that drives me to the cave.
In the meantime, I’m on the search for some mature, mellow, contemplative ballads. Got any suggestions?
Here’s what I’m listening to these days…
Barbara Streisand, “Everything Must Change”
Stevie Wonder, “A Place in the Sun”
Christopher Cross, “Sailing”
Bette Midler, “The Rose”
James Ingram and Patti Austin, “How Do You Keep The Music Playing?”
India Arie, “Healing”
Curtis Mayfied, “It’s Alright”
Lala Hathaway and Joe Sample, “When The Word Turns Blue”
Otis Redding, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay”
Nina Simone, “For All We Know”
Patti Austin, “Miss Otis Regrets”
And finally,….
Lizz Wright’s 2008 “The Orchard” is breaking my heart with its smooth, serene vibe. Wright defies easy categorization. She’s jazz, soul, blues, and everything else wrapped up with a ribbon on top. On The Orchard she’s folk singer extraordinaire with that rich, expressive tone of hers. I can piddle around the house all day drinking herbal tea in my pajamas listening to anything that comes from Lizz Wright’s vocal chords.
Like I said, I’m on the search for some contemplative ballads. What’s on your playlist these days?
“Visions” “If its magic”
