The Button Drawer

Category: Lists

  • Best Old Music of 2023

    Best Old Music of 2023

    Time has marched on from year-end review season. I did think, briefly, to write a top-ten post but soon realized that I no longer really know what’s new, old, re-issued, re-hashed, re-recorded. Spotify says my top two artists are Alejandro Escovedo and Jean Sibelius. Only one is alive and neither had new music in 2023.…

  • Best New Music 2022

    Best New Music 2022

    I’m not a list guy or, if I can help it, even a calendar guy or, given my druthers, even a “passing of time’ guy. As Arlo Guthrie once said, “What care I for time?” You just go inch by inch, row by row until you get a zucchini. Though I aspire to be outside…

  • The Ray (and Dave) Davies Songbook — a kovers playlist with komment

    I’ve got too many things to do — work piling up, plans to hatch, work to revise, children to raise, dogs to walk, etc. all that stuff plus I have to tend my garden and keep the house from falling apart. So, yeah, perfect time to spend a day making a Spotify playlist of Kinks…

  • Wisconsin Camping Tips

    Wisconsin Camping Tips

    Reminders for the next camping trip: Coffee mug. You deserve a proper mug. Fires are all about kindling. Love is about the little things too. Tend to your love. Let it breathe. jk. jk. The cooler has shifted its category in your mind: it is now a chair. Still, you must secure the cooler/chair before…