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Day Eleven (Year Three)

Today was a really quiet day for music.

Not much in the way of playing.  Not much in the way of listening, either, although I did crank up some Refreshments on the way to work this afternoon, so that was excellent.

Might have discovered a cool artist today.  Through a Facebook ad of all things.  One of those "If you like Brandi Carlile, you might also like..." things.  The artist was ZZ Ward.  I was curious, and so I checked out her website, only to find that you can download a "mixtape" of her songs for free... which I did.  The mix is called 11 roses, and the music is cool.  It's got an acoustic-soul sort of base and hip hop rhythms.  All with a bit of blues thrown in for good measure.  She's got an official album coming out in September, and there's an EP that dropped earlier in the year... I'll have to check for it tomorrow at work.  There's a song on her mix called "Til The Casket Drops," it's an acoustic version, and it's wickedly awesome.

The other thing that happened tonight?  I found a really cool lesson online that shows you how to play Sarah McLachlan's "Building A Mystery."  I've always wanted to take the time to sit down and learn that song.  It's one of those that I've filed away not only in the "that'd be cool to learn to play" file, but also in the "damn, I wish I'd written that song" file.

I guess more happened today than I thought.  Cool. 

Tomorrow night there will be rock & roll.

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