My Music Library

Fun fact about me: music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My dad is a musician, and he began teaching me piano when I was 6. When I was in middle school, I did all the music stuff. I did marching band, concert band. I started playing guitar. I kept learning piano. But one of the most important events that happened to me was my music discovery journey.

My uncle lived nextdoor to us when I was growing up (well, he still does except I'm not there haha). I am not sure what possessed him to do so, but one day he decided to get a JEEP. Not just any JEEP, but one of the open ones. So naturally he asked me and my brother to ride with him and our cousin to town (rural Alabama) in the JEEP.

What happened next has stuck with me on many different levels. He put on a CD and cranked it. And that was how I discovered rock music. The album was Stiff Upper Lip by AC/DC. To this day, I will say that I enjoy it even though it is often forgotten. But it was awesome enough to start me down my journey of self discovery in music.

I discovered that he had a very big CD collection. He had been signed up to one of those (I assume BMG) subscriptions where they would send CDs every month. So I did what every middle school kid with an iPod Touch would do: I borrowed and ripped a ton of his CDs to iTunes on my family's desktop computer. Spoiler alert: I still have those! Pretty soon, I started my own collection, mostly fueled from $5 CD displays that Walmart used to have (I miss those).

Ironically, middle school me was helping out his future self. Now, I have a renewed interest in CDs because I value owning and having control of my data and media. I've been building the collection again, which is admittedly easier to do when you have a job. I hope you enjoy browsing through my collection!