Just for fun, Bill, I tried to guess which songs you'd feature today. Last night, I looked at your CD I'd saved from 2013 and e-mailed you a prediction of five selections from it that I was predicting you'd use toady. My chosen five did total approximately fifteen minutes, but I was only correct about one song. "Corn, Water, and Wood" was the only one that appeared on both my crystal-ball-flavoured list and your list this morning. Ah well, the songs you did feature are fine.
Greg, your list was certainly not "incorrect." As a stand-alone set it is better than the songs I chose to use. That is because of two factors that I had to consider but which were not within your purview.
First, I seriously considered Cori Connors' beautiful and thoughtful Little Did I Know as the closer for my set here, as I used it on that year's sampler. But it was from her Sleepy Little Town album, and I have already used two other songs from that album on back-to-back postings just a few days ago. On the samplers they were a year apart from each other but I thought that publicly using three of her songs in five days would have been unfair to Cori.
Second, the sampler from which today's selections were chosen was a children's-album-for grownups and in general was lighthearted. Over the past four days all my samplers had what Anna Russell calls "gravitas" and my daily sets reflected that, and I knew that the next three days by their sampler's nature my sets would need to have it as well. So I thought that today's selections should be an island of whimsy and amusement in this stretch of days.
There was no reason for you to have taken either of these considerations into account when you made your projected playlist.
By the way, for other people's information who have my 2013 sampler, Greg's other three guesses as to what I would choose were Artisan's Days of Holly and Mistletoe, the legendary country singer Wilf Carter's Christmas Time in Canada, and Obed Sheldon's Little Reggae Drummer Boy. The latter two would have met my criteria for making this set lighthearted and amusing.
Just for fun, Bill, I tried to guess which songs you'd feature today. Last night, I looked at your CD I'd saved from 2013 and e-mailed you a prediction of five selections from it that I was predicting you'd use toady. My chosen five did total approximately fifteen minutes, but I was only correct about one song. "Corn, Water, and Wood" was the only one that appeared on both my crystal-ball-flavoured list and your list this morning. Ah well, the songs you did feature are fine.
Thanks,
Greg
Greg, your list was certainly not "incorrect." As a stand-alone set it is better than the songs I chose to use. That is because of two factors that I had to consider but which were not within your purview.
First, I seriously considered Cori Connors' beautiful and thoughtful Little Did I Know as the closer for my set here, as I used it on that year's sampler. But it was from her Sleepy Little Town album, and I have already used two other songs from that album on back-to-back postings just a few days ago. On the samplers they were a year apart from each other but I thought that publicly using three of her songs in five days would have been unfair to Cori.
Second, the sampler from which today's selections were chosen was a children's-album-for grownups and in general was lighthearted. Over the past four days all my samplers had what Anna Russell calls "gravitas" and my daily sets reflected that, and I knew that the next three days by their sampler's nature my sets would need to have it as well. So I thought that today's selections should be an island of whimsy and amusement in this stretch of days.
There was no reason for you to have taken either of these considerations into account when you made your projected playlist.
By the way, for other people's information who have my 2013 sampler, Greg's other three guesses as to what I would choose were Artisan's Days of Holly and Mistletoe, the legendary country singer Wilf Carter's Christmas Time in Canada, and Obed Sheldon's Little Reggae Drummer Boy. The latter two would have met my criteria for making this set lighthearted and amusing.