Alexa defaults to your Music Library

I was puzzled by my Echo's selection of music when I first started using it.  I wanted to sample the New Age music genre, of which there are dozens and dozens of songs amidst Amazon's Prime Music.  But when I would ask Alexa to "Play New Age", only one song, the same song, would ever play.  How odd.

Then I realized what was happening.  I assumed "Play New Age" meant play new age songs from Prime Music.  But no.  If you have a music library on Amazon (I did) that's the first place Alexa looks unless you tell her otherwise.  I had exactly one New Age song in my music library, and that's what kept playing!  Echo's default, unless you specify otherwise, is your own music.

When I told Alexa to "Play New Age from Prime" she pulled music from the intended place - Prime Music.

Moral of the story: if you have overlapping artists/genres, etc between your library and Prime Music, you may have to add to your verbal request where the music should come from. Otherwise if you have one Adele song, even though Prime may have 99, "Play Adele" will get you pretty sick of your one song...