Enough adds up to a lot.

An emotional weight interpretation of that sentence aside, I mean this literally. Spatially, even. You collect moments or people or music and if you also choose to surround yourself with the physical existence of that last one, it can fill a room.

And it does.

Being newly married with a house finally let everything exist in one space all at once. Everything: CDs from the years I worked in a bookstore music department, records collected from across the country, semi-private press cassettes of dulcimer musicians I remember listening to while in my mother’s old blue Ford Bronco; everything. I wanted to work my way through them all and consider them. Write about them. Catalog and archive my memory, as best I recall, transcribing them here to see how I feel and have felt about them. I want to see if they should stay or go or remain in some unconsidered limbo (likely). And that’s what I plan to do here. So, how does this thing go? Alphabetically-ish.

The general idea around the order of consideration goes something like this, but without any real hierarchy (though I generally will attempt to prevent notable duplication of an artist’s releases without cause):

• Move forward A through Z by a main/leading artist’s surname or a band/group’s name
• Where many releases exist that would spend a lot of time on one artist, pick a similarly positioned artists from another play medium
• Write about the music or write emotionally or autobiographically or do whatever
• Listen actively