Musical Taste

When I was teaching music in schools, the first question I would ask new students was "what type of music do you like?". Invariably the response was all types of music, to which, I would respond that no one likes all types of music.

Personally, I like a wide variety of music, but still find some styles unpleasant. Though of late am starting to enjoy some music that used to grate. Particularly certain country-ish music.

In particular, though I haven’t previously disliked it as such, I am finding that I am really enjoying listening to slow tremolo (not the whammy bar variety, but the amplifier effect) on clean to slightly crunchy electric guitar, and more so Dobro, slide, and pedal steel guitar. And this in turn is leading to an enjoyment of country-ish music that really used to grate me.

I’m not sure if it is entirely a new found taste, or if the nature of country music that I am now hearing is different to that, to which I was previously more familiar with.

Must be a symptom of growing older than once I was.

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