If you're half as stressed out as I've been these last two days, try this:

[DFW]

Just listen to this obscure piece of guitar tranquilizer. I had practically forgotten this piece (and album), and stumbled on it by accident. It's 1:30 AM here in Sprout City, and since I woke up Wednesday morning at home in Germany, I've been from Germany to France to Belgium to Geneva in Switzerland, and now back to Belgium where I have more work tomorrow morning before returning to Germany tomorrow afternoon.

This piece came up on youtube to remind me to have a good (if short) night's sleep and let things slide for a few hours. Try it!

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[Lochloosa]

1. Leo Kottke is amazing. Thanks. Never heard this one.

[DFW]

4. Here's another from that album

I love it when the keyboard comes in at the end:

[Lochloosa]

5. Sweet....i'm going to have to add this to my collection.

My wife is going to kill me when the CD arrives.

She thinks I have too much music now....how can you have too much music?

[DFW]

8. My wife thinks I have too much clutter in our house, too

But she never thinks we have too much music. Ya gotta draw the line somewhere!

I have about 12 guitars and a few keyboards, balalaikas and members of the tambouritsa family around. "Too much music" with us is like "too few Republicans." You can't have too much of the one any more than you can have too few of the other!

[Tobin S.]

2. Very nice.

Here's another good one. You wouldn't think so seeing as how it was made by Black Sabbath, but it is a very peaceful and relaxing acoustic instrumental.

[DFW]

3. VERY atypical of them!

I didn't even know they had done anything like this.

[Lochloosa]

6. If you liked that...prepare to have your mind blown with this one. Amazing album.

[DFW]

7. Pat Metheny meets Booker T and the MGs !

Whoda thunk it?

[underahedgerow]

9. Klonopin works great too.

Better, less stressful living through occasional medication, I always say.

I don't take it on a regular basis at all. A pack of 20 pills can last me many months.

I get a great night's sleep, the rat wheel in my lil head levels out and slows down and things get a LOT easier.

Docs hate prescribing it because it is addicting, but I have found that it's perfectly fine occasionally and for those nights, like tonight, when my sleep schedule is totally whacked.