I hope I'm as cool as Dan Rather when I'm in my 70's.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p12s05-algn.html ... Listening to?
I am rarely without [my iPod]. When I traveled to and from Greece and India recently, I was looking for a way to recharge it â?? it's such a long way there and back. I have on my iPod a collection of music which is heavily what most people call country and western music. It's heavy on Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. But I also have some [John Philip] Sousa music, which will get a fair number of chuckles, I suppose. Sousa was the master of the march. I particularly like "Semper Fidelis" and the second movement â?? someone who is schooled in music might say, 'It's not quite a movement,' but I call it a movement â?? I have isolated in and of itself ... so I can just go to it for short bursts of inspiration. I also have, on the iPod, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Until I was probably 25 years old, if Hank Williams didn't sing it, I didn't know it. Also, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Oh, I love them. I did a story on them on "60 Minutes II" when I was still at CBS and met them. I do have some R.E.M. I've not listened to it lately. Particularly their earlier stuff and "Monster." Isn't it incredible that they're still going strong? They have the added advantage of being very smart. I should have mentioned that one of the early things I put on the iPod was R.E.M.
