As you can see from the lack of activity here, this little hobby of mine may have run it's course. Between time restraints, health issues and just an overall lack of enthusiasm I just haven't been doing much. But, I do have a few more projects that I would like to put up so as the mood strikes I'll post them when I can.
So let's start with this one. Not too long ago my daughter gifted me a Sony Walkman music player to replace my ageing iPods. It's a nice little device that has a microSD slot that can handle high capacity cards. I currently have a 512gb card in there that is about 85% full so I might bump that up to a 1tb card one of these days. Having all that room allows me to carry around a lot of music including full discographies of all my favorite artists and more. But recently while building playlists I ran into a little conundrum that led to the creation of this album.
Back at the beginning of this blog I posted three Grateful Dead albums culled from early '70s solo and live albums collecting Dead songs never recorded for Dead albums. While building a playlist of just the Dead studio albums these were naturally included but I also wanted a playlist of the Dead plus Dead related albums which meant that if I include the solo albums and the albums I constructed from them I would have duplicate songs. If I excluded the fantasy albums I lose the tracks culled from the live albums. I could have just removed duplicates from the list but that would affect the ability to let the playlist play through each album as a whole. To rectify this I constructed this album.
