Favorite Albums: 'Blonde on Blonde', 'Nashville Skyline' (Dylan); 'Layla and Other Love Songs', 'Pilgrim', 'Slowhand', 'August' (Clapton); Hootie and the Blowfish 'Cracked Rear View'; 'Skin', 'Breakdown', 'Yes I Am' (Etheridge); 'Come On Come On', 'Stones in the Road' (Carpenter); 'Born in the USA'(the BOSS!) 'The Coast of Colorado' (Ewing) 'An Innocent Man' (Joel--EVERY cut, because it's the album that Grizzy and I fell in love to, and I have worn out at least 4 copies of it and I think I had it in every format except 8-track!)

Favorite Songs: 'I Only Have Eyes for You' by the Flamingos; Bob Welch's 'Sentimental Lady'; 'Wildflower' by Skylark; 'Rainy Night in Georgia' by Brook Benton; 'Please Come to Boston' by Dave Loggins; 'Someone Like You,' 'Tupelo Honey' and 'Have I Told You Lately' by Van Morrison; Joe Cocker's 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' and 'Don't You Love Me Anymore?'; 'I Wanna Know What Love Is' and ' I Have Waited So Long' by Foreigner; 'A Matter of Trust' and 'Goodnight Saigon' by Billy Joel; 'Your Body is a Wonderland' by John Mayer; 'Feels So Right' 'Lady Down On Love', and 'She and I', by Alabama;'When I Said I Do' by Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black,and 'Like the Rain' by Clint Black; 'Heal Me,' 'Sleep/My Lover', 'The Weakness in Me','Like the Way I Do' and 'Come to My Window' by Melissa Etheridge;Leonard Cohen's 'Dance Me to the End of Love' and 'I'm Your Man'; 'I Can't Tell You Why' by the Eagles; the Allman Brothers 'Melissa' and 'Seven Turns'; 'Pieces of April,' 'Brickyard Blues' and 'Easy to be Hard' by Three Dog Night; 'Slow Burn' by T.G. Sheppard; Mary-Chapin Carpenter's "Shut Up and Kiss Me,' 'Grow Old With Me', 'He Thinks He'll Keep Her', 'Not Too Much to Ask', and 'The Hard Way' (among MANY others); 'Forever Autumn' by the Moody Blues; 'Wasted on the Way' and 'Southern Cross' by CSN (and 'Ohio' by CSN&Y--WHAT a howl of outrage!); Neil Young's 'Unknown Legend' and 'Harvest Moon,' 'Small Town' and 'Cherry Bomb' and 'This Time' and 'Crumblin' Down' by John Mellencamp; Martin Page and 'In the House of Stone and Light' and 'Put On Your Red Dress'; 'Beautiful,' 'Baby, Step Back' 'Sundown,' ( I.LOVE.THE.GUITAR. on this one) 'The Circle is Small' and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' and 'Daylight Katy' by Gordon Lightfoot; Scott McKenzie's 'San Francisco'; Robert Palmer's 'I Didn't Mean to Turn You On'; Peter Gabriel's 'Steam';'Harvest Moon' and 'Unknown Legend' by Neil Young; 'My Back Pages' and 'Lay, Lady, Lay' by Bob Dylan(along with just about every other song he ever wrote or recorded); 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd; 'Abraham, Martin & John' by Dion and 'American Pie', 'Vincent,' and 'Castles in the Air' by Don McLean; 'As Long As You Love Me' by the Backstreet Boys; 'Back For Good' by Take That and 'If You're Gone' by Matchbox Twenty; 'Have Love Will Travel' by Jimmy Belushi and Danny Aykroyd; 'The Chair' by George Strait; 'You're Not Leavin' Here Tonight' by Ed Bruce; 'Sometimes a Lady' by Eddy Raven; Restless Heart's 'Back to the Heartbreak Kid,' 'Dancy's Dream,' 'Fast Movin' Train' and ''When She Cries'; 'Fire and Smoke,' 'Dreamin's All I Do' and 'What I'd Say' by Earl Thomas Conley; 'Time Stood Still' by Vern Gosdin; Toby Keith's 'You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This,' 'I Love This Bar,' 'Beer for my Horses' and 'We Were in Love'; Aaron Tippin singing 'For You I Will'; and 'Almost' by Cheryl Wheeler, Kim Richey's 'Those Words We Said,' Trisha Yearwood's 'The Song Remembers When' and 'How Do I Live', 'Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight' by John Denver...too many to list, obviously...and yet I go on...:)

Songs for Roadtrips: A good mix of the above artists/albums/songs and anything else that strikes my fancy at the moment...really anything that makes me want to reach over and TURN IT UP (like 'Sweet Home Alabama', just like Ronnie says to...)

Guilty Pleasure: Hitting repeat on something I really like and listening to it over and over....like John Parr's 'Naughty, Naughty' or Benjamin Orr's 'Stay the Night'..oh, and John Berry's 'Kiss Me in the Car',Donnie Iris and 'Ah! Leah!', Sammy Hagar's 'Mas Tequila!' or Van Halen's 'Jump' or 'I'll Wait,' Springsteen's 'Dancin' in the Dark' and the Fabulous Thunderbirds 'Tuff Enuff' or even Eddy Grant's 'Electric Avenue.' And usually this means I'm dancing...and if I'm not dancing, then I'm driving, tapping out the beat on the steering wheel and singing louder than I do anywhere else.

Band I wish I was in: hmmm, hadn't thought about it.... guess it would be the powerful group of women I saw on an awards show when Mary-Chapin Carpenter was singing 'The Hard Way'...it's one of my all-time favorite songs, and watching them walking down the steps behind her, adding their voices in this strong and beautiful arrangement...Kathy Mattea, Roseanne Cash, Trisha Yearwood...WOWSERS, as Grizzy says. Yes. I would want to be part of that group. I mean, think about the lyric: 'show a little passion, baby, show a little style.....' What woman wouldn't feel good about that? And.....USA for Africa and "We Are the World." Believing as I do, so passionately, about our responsibility to one another in this family of man...and remembering how very much I loved that song and the way it made me FEEL so much, SO much....I would have wanted to be one of that incredible gift, the ones who 'checked their egos at the door,' and sang the way Ray taught them....