Perfect iPod Morning

An iPod on Shuffle can be a wonderful thing. Driving to work today, this is the random selection that Shuffle gave me:

The New Pornographers - My Shepherd
Rosanne Cash - Sea of Heartbreak (with Bruce Springsteen)
The Carter Family - Worried Man Blues
Levon Helm - Heaven's Pearls
Jacob Dylan - War is Kind

I almost suspect that my iPod has been getting communications from Siri on you iPhone, but I have an older iPhone without Siri.  The reasons for these thoughts of karmic interconnection are:

1. I am going to see Neko Case of the New Pornographers in July at Ramshead Live.
2. I am going to see Rosanne Cash on Friday night.
3. I would probably listen, at least once, to Bruce sing the phone book (if he could still find one); he would make it interesting.
4. I recently had a conversation with Arty Hill about the Carter Family and recent book about them.
5. Levon Helm - what else is there to say.  RIP Levon.
6. Jacob Dylan - kind of the 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing:  Levon Helm was the drummer in the Band; the Band backed Bob Dylan; Bob Dylan is Jacok Dylan's father.

Of course this is not karma at all.  I love this music, so my iPod is overflowing with it.  The odds are I am going to hear something that I like (or I would take the music off my iPod) and that my musical tastes have some commonality that unites them (somehow).  (The last premise may be a bit of a stretch -- my musical interests stretch in different directions.  Yesterday, for example I was listening on Spotify to Ry Cooder, Ali Farka Toure, and Jonny Greenwood's "From Here On Out" and "Bodysong" and on the way home (via Matthews Pizza) my iPod gave me:

Arty Hill - Montgomery On My Mind (Pie for Breakfast version)
Exene Cervenka - The Willow Tree
Majestic Silver Strings - Why Baby Why (featuring Marc Ribot)
Bob Dylan - Ballad for A Friend (Whitman Demos)
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Exene Cervenka - Sound of Coming Down
Dave Matthews & Time Reynolds - Two Step (Live at Luther College)

So, maybe my iPod knows what I want to hear?