5 CD's on your current "permanent " rotation.

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Lou Reed - Magic & Loss
Beck - Sea Change
XTC - Nonsuch
Patrick O'Hearn - Indigo

1 - Dave Alvin - Out in California (saw him last week in Houston - great show)
2 - Allman Bros - Fillmore East
3 - Rodney Crowell - The Houston Kid (ok i'm biased)
4 - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
5 - Any of the live annual compilation volumes put out by KGSR in Austin. Hard to pick just one. If you can get this station on the web via streaming audio check it out.

Funny how my "permanent" rotation changes between car, work, and home.

The current line up, I think...
Car: Jack Johnson "On & On"; "Thicker Than Water"
Radiohead "The Bends"
U2 "Rattle'n'Hum"; "The Joushua Tree"; "Achtung Baby"
Work: Mozart "Sonatas for Violin and Piano K. 304, 454, 526"
Vivaldi "Concertos for Authentic Instruments"
Sibelius "Violin Concerto"
Home: Bebel & Cigala "Llagrimas Negras"
Putumayo "Nuevo Latino"
Brahms "Piano Concerto #2"
Indigo Girls "Retrospective"
Gidion Kremer "Tango Ballet"
this list will surely change next week

Jamie Cullum "Twenty Something" Jeff Buckley "Grace" Gladys Night "Best Of" Amiee Mann "Lost in Space" Fiona Apple "Tidal"

In not particular order:
-Buddy Rich "Bid Swing Face"
-Dave Matthews Band "Under the Table and Dreaming"
-Ray Charles "Genius Likes Company"
-Michael W. Smith "Freedom"
-Louie Bellson "Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion"