50albumsfor50years

My big worry when I started this quest was that I would find it difficult to discover new, unknown to me albums and review them in a week's period. I still have that fear. But this week, thankfully, one fell in my lap. Shane Hennessy Marrakech 2017 Since it was the week of St. Patrick's Day, plenty of appropriately themed posts scrolled through my twitter feed . Very few were about green beer attesting to the quality of the people I follow. But I did get some music related posts and the one that most caught my attention was a new arrangement of Riverdance for acoustic guitar by Shane Hennessy. It is very good. But I followed it down a rabbit hole and found something I liked even better . Shane Hennessy released an album in 2017 called Marrakech . I bought it after listening to the title track exactly once. I have no regrets. Shane is a guitarist of considerable talent and it is evident immediately. He plays with great passion and intensity. You'll swear there is...

In the words of Charles Kuralt , here begins something new. A good friend of mine turned 50 a few years ago and to celebrate she challenged herself to do 50 new things in the year. I loved this idea and co-opted it for myself. Coming up with 50 new things is not easy but then neither is living so we'll just have to make do. As I was combing my brain for ideas, I stumbled across a Twitter challenge which involved finding the number one song on your birthday for every year you were alive. This was similar to something I did when I turned 40. For that birthday, I bought for myself a song from each year I had been on the earth (1969-2009). That's 41 songs for the pedantic among you. I admit that I prefer that to the number one song meme because the latter severely restricts the number of songs people might experience. At most you would ever have 52 unique number one songs in a year so only 52 people would need to do the challenge before it became redundant. And in reality, numb...