@Josh Kistler

Whether it’s a weekday morning or Saturday night, get going with this personalized mix of upbeat music. Refreshed every Monday.

Songs to help you relax and unwind. Updated every Sunday.

Discover new music from artists we think you'll like. Refreshed every Friday.

The tracks you can’t get enough of lately, all in one place. Updated as you listen.

The songs you love. The more you use Apple Music, the better the mix. Refreshed every Tuesday.

In the wake of the Summer of Love, troubadours turned their attention inward and upward, using their ample talents to champion causes both romantic and existential. The spare, outspoken political folk that occupied singer/songwriters throughout the ’60s gave way to lush, mellifluous ballads and rowdy rave-ups in which artists examined matters of the heart and soul from multiple angles. Armed with little more than a six-string, poet/philosophers like Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell helped listeners make sense of everyday chaos, while charismatic crooners like Billy Joel and Elton John sent worries scurrying away on a cascade of piano chords.

Take Paul McCartney's mesmerizing gifts as a songwriter and performer, unite them with his seemingly irrepressible desire to see life's glass as half-full, and you've got a body of work that demands attention at every level. His musical circuitry is so supercharged that he can seamlessly combine two, even three, tunes into a single song, as in “Band on the Run” or "Live and Let Die." And in ballads like "Maybe I'm Amazed," his extraordinary emotional intensity leaps from the speakers, reeling us in from note one. Appreciate the magnitude of Sir Paul's talents with this playlist.