Tonight as I was dri­ving home from get­ting my car fixed (new radi­a­tor, thank you to my old one for just ooz­ing and not actu­ally blow­ing up) I started lis­ten­ing to a album I pro­duced back in 2003. I hadn’t lis­tened to it in a few years, and I really enjoyed it. And it’s coun­try! One of the amaz­ing things that hap­pens to you when you play music (or record music, as the case may be) is that you get to work with a vast array of fas­ci­nat­ing and unique peo­ple, and the man who I recorded this album with is cer­tainly a real char­ac­ter. Some are hugely tal­ented song­writ­ers whom you feel lucky just to be lis­ten­ing to, and some are hugely tal­ented musi­cians who like to drop their pants to keep the mood light in the stu­dio. And it just got me to think­ing about how lucky I am to have these peo­ple around who keep life my so very inter­est­ing. I’ll have to ask my friends in other pro­fes­sions if this is true for them too. Some­how I doubt it. So if I tag you in my face­book ver­sion of this post, you’re one of the peo­ple I’m say­ing a big pub­lic thank you to for keep­ing my career choice so cool. And if I didn’t tag you, I prob­a­bly just for­got. The funny thing is that the guy who inspired all of this isn’t on face­book, so he’s not going to get tagged!

One caveat: I’m not tag­ging any of my stu­dents here, so don’t be insulted guys. You keep my career inter­est­ing for very dif­fer­ent reasons!