On the iPod

O for a beaker full of the warm South -- John Keats

Honestly, I don't have one. But it doesn't mean I'm not listening to music, always. In the truck right now, I've got a burned copy of Texas Worried Blues by Henry Thomas, supposedly "the oldest African-American folk artist to produce a significant body of recordings." With its surprising panpipes, the music is positively buoyant.

When I'm on the computer, I've been enjoying thoroughly other tracks I discovered from the Anthology of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith). You really haven't heard anything until you've heard Charley Patton groan. But, keeping with my current activities and the tenor of the season, I'm especially fond of two songs, jaunty farmers' laments, by the Bently Boys and the Carolina Tar Heels respectively.

DownOnPenny_sFarm.mp3

GotTheFarmLandBlues.mp3

So encouraged by the response to a previous post, I'm asking what are you listening to? Flamenco guitars? 1980's South African protest music? Korn? Sweet mercy, I hope not.