1 Song Per Year

So I’m 50 this year and I decided to celebrate by creating a 50 song playlist: one song for each year I’ve been alive. And then every year after—51, 52, 53 and so on until I’m 100 or so…I’ll add a song. This is not an original idea. I stole it from a friend of my pal Ryan Steans. Props to his friend, Jim Dedman, another lawyer who loves music, for coming up with the idea. Or at least sharing the idea with me and Ryan.

I’ve tried—as much as possible—to select songs that were both meaningful to me AND were released on or about the same year. But then some years I just had to celebrate songs that were especially impactful to me that year or at that time of my life. Even if they came out earlier.

I’m gonna try to cover a song per day over the next 50 days or so. And it’s my birthday, so you have to put up with my dumb engagement gimmick. Who knows, I might even post every day and not give up halfway through the project. Guess we’ll see!