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Music to our ears

My wife and I loved “Still Like That Old Time Rock ’N’ Roll” about the cottage rock playlist (Aug/Sept ’20). Like in the story, our “playlist” is associated with what we now call classic rock. We grew up with it and associate hundreds of songs from that era with our sounds of summer. Our two kids, who are now in their twenties, had shared our idea of the cottage playlist their whole lives, but then their partners got added to our family and opinions began to differ.

The biggest problem we faced was deciding which of the six of us got to choose the songs to listen to for our long summer days. So, we started taking turns. We’ve begun to love each other’s taste in music and loads of new songs are making their way into our cottage lives. This past winter, we started building a communal family summer