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It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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Tom Rush--a favorite since "those days" in Harvard Square--Celebrates 50 Years of Music.  If you have a moment, take the time to visit his website and read about this DVD/CD. There are many YouTube videos to watch which you can access by first watching this video about his newsletter and The Dead Bird Song.

Listening to this newest CD takes me through the amazing progression from seeing him live to LPs to casette tapes to CDs to uploading CDs to iPod, a progression made more real when I recently was looking for something in the treasure trove of memories called the attic and came across this:

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When I turned 50, my daughter took me to a Rod Stewart concert to celebrate.  In the card accompanying the tickets, she wrote, "Better than any moisturizer you could buy to keep you forever young."

Two more milestone birthdays have passed, and now Rod Stewart has returned with a fountain of youth that while sometimes nostalgic still brings that Downtown Train beat to all new songs.  

More information and videos can be found on Rod Stewart's website.

Listening to... JD Souther

Because he's no longer available on a local Boston radio station, I listen to Imus via podcast on my iTouch--not necessarily for his personal brand of humor, but for the guests he invites on who offer up food for thought that can sometimes take me out of my conservative thinking rut.  Then, too, there is the music he nudges my way with a simple "Was that great or what?".  

This time it was JD Souther's Natural History.  As soon as I heard  I'll Be Here at Closing Time, I immediately clicked on iTunes and downloaded the entire album and have been lost in these songs since.

From Amazon:
If you don't know JD Souther, you surely know his songs. In the renaissance of popular songwriting that occurred during the 1960s and '70s, his name looms large as one of the chief architects of the Los Angeles scene. JD is an artist whose spirit and influence has had an enormous impact on a full generation of this country's greatest musical names: The Eagles, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Roy Orbison, just to name a few.