Here's what the playlist ended up being today:
| Song | Artist |
| Boulder to Birmingham | Emmylou Harris |
| The Boxer | Simon & Garfunkel |
| The Boy Next Door | Barbra Streisand |
| Brand New Girlfriend | Steve Holy |
| Brand New Man | Brooks & Dunn |
| Brass Buttons | Gram Parsons |
| Brave | Idina Menzel |
| Break Each Other's Hearts Again | Reba McEntire & Don Henley |
| Break My Mind | The Flying Burrito Brothers |
| Breakaway | Kelly Clarkson |
| Breakfast in Bed | Train |
| Breathe | Andy & The Lamboy Club Mix |
| Brick By Brick | Train |
| Bridge Over Troubled Water | Eva Cassidy |
| Bring Him Home | Les Miserable Soundtrack |
| Brokeback Mountain 1 | Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack |
| Broken Arrow | Rod Stewart |
Thoughts and observations I experienced while listening to this list:
- I just love Boulder to Birmingham. It's a song I've only recently learned about, and I'm still in a place with it that I could put it on
for a couple of hours. It's such a beautiful song. - The Boxer always takes me back to the first time I heard the lyrics (I was young!) "Just a come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue," and the even racier subsequent admission, "I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there."
- Brand New Girlfriend always makes me think of line-dancing, as we do a dance to that song.
- Brand New Man is one of my favorite Brooks & Dunn songs, and I hadn't heard it in a long, long time. It made me smile.
- Although I prefer Simon Garfunkel's original version of Bridge Over Troubled Water, I chose to listen to the Eva Cassidy version in this playlist, and I can never hear the unbelievably melodious voice of hers without thinking about this NPR broadcast in December of 2000, which is how I learned who she was.
- I've only seen Les Miserable once, in the West End actually, and at that time I really didn't care for it. It could have been because it was part of a 6-country, 13-city European tour with my wife and both sets of our parents, and that it was such a long play for which we head nosebleed seats. With that said, there are at least two songs that I love from it: I Dreamed a Dream and Bring Him Home.
- That Brokeback Mountain selection is just a short instrumental piece, and I pretty much like anything that can take me back to that movie and those beautiful men—Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal. I think this particular music is what starts playing toward the end of the clip above, which is the famous "I wish I knew how to quit you" scene. Made me cry just reviewing that, particularly thinking about the sadness of the death of Heath.
- Although I don't listen to Rod Steward music often, whenever I do, I always thoroughly enjoy it. With that said, Broken Arrow is not one of my favorite songs of his.
