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My friend Nat over at Mini-Obs has a recurring theme for her Friday posts called, coincidentally enough, Top 5 On Friday. Each week a new theme is chosen and a list compiled. This last week her theme was Top 5 Songs You Wish You Wrote which of course got me thinking about what I would include on such a list.

My wife put hers together in about 5 minutes, mine has taken me quite a bit longer. Lists like this are really difficult for me, I think of all of the things I am excluding when I do them. Recently though, I've decided to just go with what comes to mind quickly and see if a theme develops. It did so in this case.

So here are the 5 songs I have chosen. I don't know that these are my 5 favorite songs, or the 5 greatest songs, but these are the ones that I wish I had written (at least at the time of this writing) Continue reading "Top Five Songs I Wish I Had ... »

It's late, but it's here - the next in our ongoing series of BYOBO compilations. This time we are featuring one of my favorite songwriters, the amazingly insightful and talented Jackson Browne.

So once again inspired by Nat at Mini-Obs, the idea is the same as always:

Pick one of your favorite bands / artists and list 10-15 songs by that band / artist to compile your own best of compilation.

So here goes - The Best of Jackson Browne as compiled by me: Continue reading "Build Your Own Best Of - ... »