Driving happiness

Have I mentioned that I’m not that ‘techy’? If I was, I might know how to share a music playlist you could actually download and play. As it is, I’m going to share the names of the songs (and artists) I had my son Dan put together for an old-school mix CD I’m crazy about … one of my current ‘go to’ homemade CDs for the car. I call it ‘Driving Happiness‘ and I hope you get the double meaning!

It came to me on a really early morning trip to work for an offsite meeting. I decided to play DJ in the car, picking out and playing my favorite songs on a bunch of new CDs* I had bought. (Please don’t try that in the car as I admit it was distracted driving and won’t do it again!) In any case, these songs truly make me happy, hope they do for you too:

1. Sam Bush – Play by your own rules
2. Sheryl Crow – Shotgun
3. George Ezra – Blame it on me
4. Glen Hansard – Winning streak
5. Squeeze – Happy days
6. Ed Sheeran – Thinking out loud
7. Counting Crows – Earthquake diver
8. Harry Connick, Jr – Every time I fall in love
9. Trigger Hippy – Rise up singing with you
10. Keith Urban – Fly with me
11. Hunter Hayes – Storm warning
12. John Mayer – Wildfire
13. Motown, the Musical – Happy birthday/ Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours (‘Stevie Wonder’)
14. The Strokes – You talk way too much
15. Bruce Springsteen – Does this bus stop at 82nd street?
16. REM – Shiny happy people
17. Robert Earl Keen – Hard Amarillo Highway (live version)
18. The Allman Brothers – Jessica
19. Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
20. Pharrell Williams – The happy song

*Not sure if this is a ‘fun fact’ or just embarrassing – but I have more than 500 CDs neatly arranged and organized on home-assembled pretty IKEA shelves, alphabetically and by genre! I also have the list in an evolving Word doc

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