Tales From A Crowded Island

I am finally, a year after making a break from Andy’s, getting around to converting some of my WMA files into MP3. When I was lodging at Andy’s we initially had an all Windows household, so much of the first years there, when the majority of my music library was amassed, everything was ripped in Windows Media Player straight into WMA format. This was efficient and met requirements at the time, as WMA played both on the various Squeezebox devices scattered liberally around the house, but also on my Creative Zen MP3 player. In hindsight a bit of a mistake. The move to a Mac and an iPod a couple of years ago left me with some music in MP3 which would play, but a big bulk of my historical library in WMA which iTunes on the Mac cannot handle (Windows version does and will actually convert WMA to MP3).

Anyway, this long and unnecessary story is just a tedious introduction to some music I rediscovered tonight whilst converting some old WMA files. Starting alphabetically, I soon came across an album by Adam Snyder, a long forgotten support act that Lee and I (I think) once saw supporting Tom McRae some 6 or so years back. If memory serves, I don’t think he was even supposed to be the support act that night, but was stepping in for someone else. He was touring on the material from his debut album release at the time, a melodic, folky album with some great tracks. A quick search of Amazon reveals a second album in 2006, but nothing since then. YouTube likewise had scant material from Snyder, but I did manage to find this live performance of Two Moons, a track from his debut album.