One day on the road
I miss mix-tapes.
I have only owned 4 vinyl records in my life, and I’ve never had to buy a record player, machine, turntable, whatever it was called. I really entered music consumption as it turned from records to CDs, before we could burn a CD. So we had mix tapes.
The thing with a tape is that you couldn’t change the order of songs, couldn’t skip directly to the song on your mind. You had to go through the other songs, everything happened in a personalized version of its own time. So creating a mix-tape required some planning. One song had to flow into the next, a mood established, then sustained.
I also entered music consumption at about the same time I got my first car. So for me, a lot of good songs are linked to memories of places on the highway just outside the city.
New songs, new memories, same highway.
