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Warning: To all my choral and “classical” instrumental music friends, there is going to be a huge pop music focus for this blog. Just saying. I’m sure I can’t have a whole blog only about pop music, but consider yourself warned and pick your tags carefully.

Here’s the deal; I’m a fan of music, pretty much all of it. I’ve been reading a lot about music over the last number of years, and I’ve become more interested in it. I’m also a bit of a history buff, and the history of music is quite fascinating. One of the things I’ve learned (OK, maybe just decided) is that my generation has probably been witness to some of the most significant changes in the music world. We’ve seen new genres appear, other genres change significantly, we’ve seen the impact of race and gender, we’ve seen media come and go (reel-to-reel and 8-track anyone?), we were also witness to the impact of video on the music world (past-tense because really, who watches actual music videos any more?).

So, with all of that, and more, I’m taking the opportunity of this particular medium to talk about things I learn and have learned, share music that I find and that is found for me, and potentially to have discussions that lead to a better understanding of music and what interests others. Of course, no one is going to read it, so another focus of it will be for me to track music interests of mine and keep a bit of a record (pun intended) of my own music education.