We agreed it was probably self-improvement tapes. Then the conversation drifted into our own personal choices. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' as the best album of all time and the one recording they'd hang on to if allowed only one. Others offered their top choices, but when it came my turn I couldn't say. I can't imagine being so musically deprived.
Music creates and changes moods.
It can calm me down or pump me up. With more than 200 channels on cable TV, I still spend most at-home time listening to music. That Beatles album is among hundreds of others, too scratched to play, stored in boxes in my basement in Macon. The ''favorites'' conversation made me think about the music I hold most sacred. Bromberg has backed many big names on nearly 100 albums but has recorded only a handful of his own.