Well hello there, happy Tuesday!

I’m popping in today with ONE thing for you, but since the ONE thing will take you over 28 hours to fully enjoy, I’d say it’s a BIG thing!

MUSIC!

When I was finished with adding everything to my summer playlist, the text I sent with it to my nearest and dearest was …

28 hours of VIBES

What vibes, you ask?

Outdoorsy, chill, but with a solid beat and lyrics, folksy and a little bit country, but not THAT kind of country ~ artists I am seeing live this summer & early fall or WISH I could see this year.

I keep wanting my current favorites and their full albums over and over, but also together over and over, and ALL of them but ONLY them. Does that make sense? No? Valid.

My girls and I joke a lot about people who say they aren’t album people because I am NOTHING if not an album person ~ when someone I love has an album release, I listen to it over and over and over to get the full breadth and to actually hear and process the lyrics and feel how all the songs sound together. I study the hell out of the thing.

I get to the point where listening to just one of the songs doesn’t work because I’m waiting for the intro to the next one on the album as PART of that song.

I don’t shuffle albums.

I don’t move on from artists quickly.

I still buy CDs.

But along with that, I need a long-running digital feed of A HELL OF A LOT OF EXACTLY WHAT I WANT for driving and running, and Spotify’s auto-playlists never come close to making me happy.

So, I spent the time pulling up my current favorite artists and added ALL of their music to one playlist. I desperately want the deep cuts and six versions of the same song and I do want to shuffle this and just let it play and play and play. I want to be surprised by something new and gasp with delight over a favorite.