How to wake up in the morning without really trying

Flaco Jimenez. In the CD player on the table next to my bed. The CD starts playing and I start dreaming that I'm dancing. And then I wake up all dreamy and happy and all I want to do is dance. How can I possibly have a bad day? How can anything suck? Accordions are playing! People are happy! Life is good!

I've tried so many different CDs to wake up to, and I keep coming back to this one. I'm sensitive, I guess, and I believe I've mentioned that I'm kind of tired of hearing the damn news right away in the morning. But the wake-up music has to be just right, or your whole day can be set askew. I don't, for example, want to start off the day with Tom Waits doing that completely demented version of the Dwarves' Marching Song "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off to Work We Go," even though it's highly excellent and perfect for the bus ride to work.

Anyway, I think this CD is just called "Flaco Jimenez." Some of the songs are in English and some are in Spanish and a few are in kind of spangly Spanglish. All are very danceable. I'm sure I'll get tired of this one eventually and have to pick something else.