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  I'm coming in late and haven't a chance of check all the entries to see if this has been done already, but here's the first thing I thought of: Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl https://youtu.be/nzwnYC_wJ1g #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Age 30 to 35 I got surgery for melanoma just before my 30th birthday. That kicked off a quarter-life crisis and a lot of changes in this time period. I kept thinking about this song on my 30th birthday. It became a kind of theme song for me, and different lines from it became my motto in successive birthdays for a few years after. "when you look in the mirror do you see visions of your past I ain't got time for halfway I ain't got time for halfassed when I look in the mirror I see...

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  Age 25-30 I moved to New Zealand when I was 27. I recall listening to this song on my headphones while hiking in Zealandia and realising how the opening lines mirrored my experience. "He was born in the Summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place he'd never been before." John Denver - Rocky Mountain High https://youtu.be/cOS5-n7dyj4 #JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist

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  Age 20 to 25 I discovered Ani Difranco in college (uni) and she became a favourite. This song reminds me of when I first met my partner. I first heard this song at their house and I don't usually like love songs unless they are about heart break but this one really resonated with my feelings of falling in love. Ani Difranco - Falling Is Like This https://youtu.be/OAr2Stq4Hls #JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist

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  This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme #PersonalPlaylist is so open ended. I decided to give myself some structure. Broke it into 5-year periods and picked one song for each. Well, I didn't get something for EVERY 5 years yet but I got a good run of them this way. Age 15 t0 20 Tori Amos is an artist whose presence was so big in my teen years. This cover also introduced me to Joni Mitchell. This became my theme song for a my first big romantic relationship, a prominent feature of this tim...

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  Cover crops. This is a mix of blue lupin and mustard but the lupins stole the show. You are supposed to chop them down before they flower but the blue lupin flowers are so pretty I can't help myself! Cover crops are used between growing seasons for several reasons. They out-compete weeds. Some improve the soil. (In this case the lupins are legumes, which are nitrogen fixers, adding nitrogen to the soil. The mustard releases chemicals which can eliminate certain plant diseases from the soil...

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  Another song about Napoleon - and his wife Josephine Tori Amos - Josephine https://youtu.be/OzFgpAOjAHA #JukeboxFridayNight #History

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  Access to the birth control pill really was an historic moment for women and Loretta Lynn sings about it quite frankly "All these years I've stayed at home While you had all your fun And every year that's gone by Another baby's come There's a gonna be some changes made Right here on nursery hill You've set this chicken your last time 'Cause now I've got the pill" Loretta Lynn - The Pill https://youtu.be/5DcdONaKSQM #JukeboxFridayNight #History

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  The destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius as metaphor for a relationship ending. Dar Williams - This Was Pompeii #History #JukeboxFridayNight https://youtu.be/xEozQq1EFic

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  A spoken word poem about 9/11 I first heard this at an Ani Difranco concert some time in 2002 before it was released on an album and it was powerful. She said the things we were all thinking and feeling. Take care listening, it gets heavy in that beautiful Ani Difranco way <3 Ani Difranco - Self Evident https://youtu.be/16UIAg61dhU #History #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Have to start with a Prince song as I've been recently listening to some. Then I listened to a fantastic episode of Strong Songs about this song. Prince - Kiss https://youtu.be/H9tEvfIsDyo If you wanna listen to the podcast episode: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s02e15-kiss-by-prince #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  I feel like this song is in conversation with Jolene. In fact I like to imagine it could be from Jolene's perspective. Little Big Town - Girl Crush https://youtu.be/JYZMT8otKdI #BeLikeDolly #JukeboxFridayNight

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  And of course here's an excellent Bluegrass cover of Jolene Rhonda Vincent - Jolene https://youtu.be/BsKZDLTJGb8 #BeLikeDolly #JukeboxFridayNight

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  And this is just one of my favourite Dolly Parton songs. This is from the album "Trio" which was a collaboration with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. I do love a supergroup especially when it's women joining forces in a music industry that can be hostile to them. "Just a wild rambling rose seeking mysteries untold No regret for the path that I chose When a flower grows wild It can always survive Wildflowers don't care where they grow" Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris...

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  For this prompt, I immediately thought of this song by The Cure "I waited hours for this I made myself so sick I wish I'd stayed asleep today" The Cure - Close To Me https://youtu.be/BjvfIJstWeg #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting

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  Facebook is down for me right now and just, what if it never came back, would that be so bad? What if this was it, and it just vanished from all our lives forever.

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  "Through the highs and lows and the hurts like hell Still reaching for the ring on the carousel I been down this trail a time or two Knocked out, fenced in, but I broke through Life ain't fair and you can't fight it So take it by the horns and ride it" Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Next Rodeo #MarketsAndFairs #JukeboxFridayNight https://youtu.be/1inRpsFwhgc

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  I can picture this character at a flea market. I love how this song gets more absurdist as it goes: "And it steals your car It gets rid of your gambling debts. it quits smoking It's a friend and it's a companion And it's the only product you will ever need Follow these easy assembly instructions, it never needs ironing Well it takes weights off hips, bust, thighs, chin, midriff Gives you dandruff and it finds you a job, it is a job" Tom Waits - Step Right Up #MarketsAnd...

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  For this theme, I couldn't resist this song from one of my favourite children's animated movies. In this song, the goose entices the rat (Templeton) into going to the fair with Wilbur by describing how much left-over food he will be able to eat. Charlotte's Web Soundtrack - A Veritable Smorgasboard #MarketsAndFairs #JukeboxFridayNight https://youtu.be/P82AWke3fHQ

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  #Stereotypes #JukeBoxFridayNight Kimya Dawson - Same Shit/Complicated "But if we learn to empathize, the resentments will vaporize Situations metamorphize before our very eyes Then the need to stereotype will become outdated When we realize that everyone is really complicated We are all so complicated We are all so complicated I am also complicated I am also complicated" https://youtu.be/0ekRPx90A9I

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  OK #TuneTuesday here's a song about a maker of #GuitarsAndStrings And it's bluegrass - a genre which is traditionally all strings - banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, upright base. "it started out for fun he just wanted it to play and when one was done everyone would say what did you put in that wood to make it roar and he would say that every day i just walk through the door" Foggy Memory Boys - Just To Sweep The Floor https://youtu.be/KbJyGJaJYsw

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  My Winter #Gardening is pretty low key this year. Raised Bed 1 - I have been converting into an herb garden. It will mostly be left to it's own devices. The perennial herbs are doing their thing and some of the annuals have self seeded. Raised Bed 2 - I left several parsley around the edges, and the perennial garlic chives. Planted out some rainbow sliverbeet (aka chard) in the middle. Raised Bed 3 - is getting the cover crop treatment. Mix of mustard and blue lupins sewn a month ago...

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  This episode really kicked me in the feels and then left me with a lot to think about. I worked in animal care as a pet sitter and a vet tech and I'm familiar with compassion fatigue. My first job out of school was at an animal shelter and I walked into a situation where all the veterinary staff was totally burnt out and in the process of quitting. I looked at the outgoing lead tech and knew that would be me in a couple of years if I stayed. But I loved that job. But it really did take...

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  Hello #JukeboxFridayNight here's one of my favourite songs by The Be Good Tanyas - it just evokes such cozy Winter vibes The Be Good Tanyas - Dogsong (aka Sleep Dog Lullabye) #DogsCatsAndOtherPets https://youtu.be/SjM_5IwWa_I

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  Another sub-category of women in #country #music that I appreciate: women super groups. Because women working together in an industry that is hostile to women is so powerful. Notable groups I have stumbled upon: Trio: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris Honky Tonk Angels: Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette Pistol Annies: Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley The Highwomen: Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and Amanda Shires Am now activel...

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  Do not know why i woke up to Ani Difranco's "Pulse" playing in my head. Specifically, this bit of poetry: "unable to save ourselves from the quaint tragedies we invent or undo from the stupid circumstances that we slolum through"

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  Remembering not to capitalise "internet" so as not to show my age 😅 #Linguistics

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  And while I'm at it, remembering to say "Me and Joe" not "Joe and I" so as not to betray my private school background and come off as preppy 😅 #Linguistics

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  Also the code-switching between talking to Americans and talking to New Zealanders. But trying not to talk so Kiwi that I come across as putting on an act. When in fact I just pick up new words and new dialects fast and somewhat unconsciously. (As an immigrant whose been in Aotearoa for nearly two decades) Just a few things I think about when I try to communicate with other humans. #Linguistics #CodeSwitching

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  I got into country music so late in life because it was looked down upon culturally both in my household and among my friend groups. But somehow this Alvin and the Chipmunks country album found its way into our house when I was a kid. It was probably my introduction to a lot of those songs. I remember liking "The Gambler" and "I Love I Rainy Night" and puzzling over "Coward Of The County" because I was a 8 and also I wasn't Christian...