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Continuing in the theme of Tuesday’s Tunes, today I’m continuing my ripping of two songs of every artist/group whose CDs we own on iTunes. Two weeks ago, before my computer crashed — which a neighbor was nice enough to diagnose and fix for free (a simple fix, thank God) — I was just up to G and so I’m continuing from there. Right now, it’s Heart, Humble Pie and Husker Du that are on my desktop (literal desktop, not computer desktop) waiting to be ripped, and I just finished with Hootie and the Blowfish, and now am on to Merle Haggard, Lauryn Hill and Emmylou Harris. Also I’m realizing a couple others I have forgotten as I was going through the earlier letters: Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers.

For the record, we only own one CD of each of those artists mentioned, with the exception of the Chemical Brothers and Emmylou, of whom we own two each, so don’t think I’m a hardcore fan of any of the aforementioned groups. The main artists/groups for which we own multiple CDs are mostly the “big” artists/groups such as U2, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, and a few Christian contemporary music artists like Petra, Resurrection Band and Stryper. And for those I am considering putting on almost all of the albums we own by those “big” artists/groups, with the exception of some live and best of collections.

For the time being, we don’t have the memory on our computer to put all of the music we have, more than 600 CDs, on our computer. So my temporary solution was this, to at least get the major artists and two of every other artist/group that we own onto the computer. What I’m amazed by is the diversity of music we have from metal to rock to gospel to jazz to blues to rap (a little admittedly, mostly “old school” like Public Enemy and Run-DMC) to country and a little bit of the “off-beat” genres: electronica, New Age, and even opera (again, I think about one or two CDs).

Personally, I think I like the historical music the best, from Jimmie Rodgers in bluegrass and Blind Willie Johnson in the blues and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in western swing and groups like the Coasters, the Drifters, and so on, because it’s important to know from where we came and into what we later fused. As Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun,” something I think we probably all are learning every day — at least, I know I am.