Here's something to drool over until they start shipping again in November: Osceola Cheese. The smoked cheeses are wonderful!

"Gold drives a man to dream."

Great played on speakers, kinda trippy on headphones. Fully instrumental except for spoken clips that might have been ripped from old 50's era sci-fi movies. This is my most frequent play for the last two months.

So you have only 4.875 friends now? 🤣 Sorry, had to say it before anyone else. Wishing you well.

Love the El Grupo! Gonna search for the CD.

Louvin Brothers and Levin Brothers, too.

The place I started working for in the early 80's used, and sold with the systems we made, PDP-11 computers. Boards for it were about 15 inches square, some wire-wrapped. The hard drives had 80MB capacity on a removable 15 inch platter. To change a disc, you'd start spinning it down and wait...

I forgot to state that I often play from local network storage. Thanks for mentioning it. Most often, I've got an internet radio station playing. Volumio claims to integrate Alexa devices, but that capability needs a subscription, last I knew. WiiM works with Amazon's components, although...

I have two WiiM Pros, both running off Ethernet. One is upstairs and would have great WiFi, but Ethernet was handy. In the basement, particularly the little alcove where my electronics workbench sits, WiFi is pretty weak. WiiM Pro wins over RasPi/Volumio for me because Volumio requires a...

I don't drink anything alcoholic, so I don't know who drinks what. OTOH, I've been here long enough to know if Ableza recommends or praises something, it's met some pretty high standards.

Just discovered Club d'Elf. Jazz? Fusion? Afro-psych? Haven't gotten very far into You Never Know, but they're high in my "Listen more. Buy." category.

Since it's 4/20, I'll drop these here for those of you who partake:

I first heard the album shortly after losing one of my parents, so it may have had deeper impact. I had to pause it a few times between start and end, then immediately started over and listened non-stop. The album is brooding, contemplative, questioning, yet I remember chuckling a few times at...

I think many artists have released something knowing their end was near. Leonard Cohen's You Want it Darker really shook me. I still haven't quite figured it out, either. It was the end of an era, or several eras in his case. That one hit me pretty hard, too. I passed on a chance to see...