Tucson, AZ: COVID-19 Unfolding, Part 11: The Playlist

Sign at Vermilionville at Cajun Jam. Lafayette, Louisiana. December 2013.

In addition to good smells, ginger beer, and recently, some sugar-free ketchup for my boiled potatoes, I have a stay-at-home COVID playlist.

My playlist is designed to shoot out endorphins, sending my spirits - if not soaring - at least a little levitational.

I listen during my food prep, as I slice jícama, chop lettuce, measure out an allotment of grapes, cut up strawberries. Or while I read. Or do a lil exercising. Or play a wan game of pseudo-Scrabble with a fairly smart bot.

Baroque

From Halidon Music's channel:

• Two hours: The Best of Baroque Music
• Three hours: The Best of Baroque

Birdsong

• One hour: Morning Bird Song
• Two hours: Forest Birdsong
• Three hours: Bird Sounds

KRVS 

On Saturday and Sunday mornings, streaming KRVS transports me to South Louisiana with:

• Saturday morning: Zydeco Est Pas Sale
• Saturday morning: Zydeco Stomp ("send the kids to Dairy Queen" "You bring the jelly, I'll bring the jam")
• Sunday mid-day: Bal du Dimanche Apres Midi (Sunday Afternoon Dance)

To Louisiana Again: The Playlist

Louisiana Highway 3083. November 2013.

Finished with the Missouri year, and following my month in Mexico City, I'm on my way to next year's home by way of a several-weeks stop in South Louisiana.

Dropping down to South Louisiana from Missouri is a long, but not-unpleasant one-day drive.

Coming down, my road-trip playlist was so good. It included: 

• Cat Stevens
• Hugh Laurie
• Idris Elba Presents [the Luther soundtrack]. 

The winner of the day was the Luther soundtrack.


I especially liked Marilyn Manson's cover of the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams."

But top honors go to Robert Plant's cover of "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down."

Writing this reminds me of the day I drove down to South Louisiana for my first year of living there, back in 2013. In The Drive to My New Home: Day1, I featured bits of that day's driving playlist:

• Paul Simon's That Was Your Mother
• Clifton Chenier's Tighten Up Zydeco

In 2011, I took my first road trip to South Louisiana, not knowing then that I'd move there two years later. Again, I noted my satisfaction with the music. Here's my post, Louisiana Road Trip, Part 1: Driving Day in Driving Rain.

In the video on that post, a heavy-duty bluesman accompanied the rain and the wipers. John Lee Hooker, I believe.