A New Idea leads to Stevie Ray and Bill Morrissey
You know what they say- out of site out of mind. Over the last week or so I do believe they may be right. Recently, I decided to take the CDs I like out of storage and put them on shelves in my room. Yes I know I can play them all on my iPod or I can stream them on Spotify, but there is something about seeing and holding an album or CD that feels good and right. I have a five disc CD player and over the last month I have been randomly picking five CDs putting them in the changer and listening to them. And I’ve enjoyed a lot of music I haven’t heard for a while. Right now I have around nine or ten shelves with CDs on them. So today I decided to randomly generate a number from one to ten using an on-line random number generator. I then picked an album off of the corresponding shelf. I did that twice and then had the two albums playing while I read and did some other stuff. The two albums were Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 1989 release In Step and Something I Saw or Thought I Saw. When that album was released in 2001 it was Bill’s first album of new songs in five years. I haven’t listened to either album in long long time, particularly the Stevie Ray album! In Step – Stevie Ray Vaughan Spotify In Step was Stevie Ray’s fourth and final studio album. It reached number 33…
