I'll try not to think (Eclectic Playlist Series 11.01)

The year 2023 didn't come and go with much that resembled joy but let's at least recognize that it was a pretty darned good year for music. Then again, independent of the dreadful news that seems to hound our global community month after month, one year to the next, the music seems always to deliver; every year turns out to be a pretty darned good year for music. All of which is a roundabout of acknowledging the presence of four 2023 songs in this first playlist of 2024. Typically, in seeking some semblance of balanced chronological distribution among the 20 songs, I aim not to have more than three songs from any given decade. So much, this month, for that rule. In and around the new-ish music you'll encounter the usual mix of decades and styles, a 20-song journey that hangs together, however elusively, from start to finish. See https://fingertipsmusic.com/?p=24810 for more info.