I’m old-fashioned. I buy these round silvery things called compact discs that have music on them, and when you put them in a compact disc player, music comes out. I still haven’t figured out how they get those tiny people inside the radio yet, but I’m working on that one.

I never thought that buying CDs would make me old-fashioned. Yes, I do have a Zune (think iPod but more cool and less expensive). But I still prefer to put a CD in and let it play all the way through an entire album. I’m crazy like that.

Lately, I have been listening to Peter Bradley Adam’s Leavetaking a lot. That and Eastmountainsouth have been in heavy rotation in my car, along with Brooke Fraser’s Albertine, Lori McKenna’s Lorraine, The Civil War’s Barton Hollow and a few others. My musical tastes tend to change weekly, and lately, I’ve been going for music that invokes moods of tranquility and calm.

I do like Christian music, but a lot of it is too commercial and pop-y for my tastes. The older I get, the more obscure my music gets. I like that. If you’re a strickly top-40 person who never ventures past what they play on the radio, that’s fine. That got old for me a while back, but I’m all for people who like music of any kind, as long as they are passionate and sincere about it.

So, who are you listening to in your car? Are you like me and go old-school with CDs or do you rock an iPod or iPhone? Are you into country? Pop? Heavy metal? Adult contempary? Christian? Bluegrass? Americana? I’d like to know.

I’d also like to know what off-the-beaten-path artists you’ve discovered that no one else seems to know about. And for the record, I bought that Norah Jones album long before she got all popular. I was a trend-setter, not a trend-folower.  Just sayin’.