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Back to Back to Basics 2

2009-05-08T09:51:00.001-07:00

The Fleet Foxes	White Winter Hymnal
2.	Carrie Rodriguez	Seven Angels on a Bicycle
3.	Bosque Brown	This Town
4.	Mark Olson & Gary Louris	The Rose Society
5.	The Tallest Man on Earth	The Sparrow And The Medicine
6.	Son Volt	Creosote
7.	Neko Case	Make Your Bed
8.	Okkervil River	Lost Coastlines
9.	Vampire Weekend	A-punk
10.	Blind Pilot	Go On, Say It
11.	The White Stripes	One More Cup Of Coffee
12.	Bob Dylan	Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
13.	Jenny Lewis	Pretty Bird
14.	Abigail Washburn	How Long
15.	Doc Watson	Rain Crow Bill
16.	John Hartford	Me And My Fiddle
17.	Elizabeth LaPrelle	Sail Away Ladies
18.	The Monads	Man in Town
19.	Paul Westerberg	D.G.T
20.	Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	I Am Goodbye

Since it has been less time since the last Back to Back to Basics, I am also back to single-disk mixes for my uncle Daryl. Nothing too scientific, just what I have been listening to over the past few months and continuing to introduce him to a few artists that I know he will probably like.

Speaking of Daryl, Carrie Rodriguez opened for John Prine when we saw the show together last February. She put on a great show, just with her fiddle and her foot. Thanks to Brother Tex for the Elizabeth LaPrelle that I put in the middle of all that fiddle towards the end…

Primer Prine: A Prine Primer

2009-05-08T09:50:00.000-07:00


1.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Paradise John Prine (1971)
2.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Take The Star Out Of The Window Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
3.	John Prine	He Was In Heaven Before He Died Common Sense (1975)
4.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Christmas In Prison Sweet Revenge (1973)
5.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Clocks And Spoons Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
6.	John Prine	Blue Umbrella Souvenirs (2000)
7.	John Prine	Clay Pigeons Fair & Square (2005)
8.	John Prine	Fish and Whistle Bruised Orange (1978)
9.	John Prine	My Darlin' Hometown Fair & Square (2005)
10.	John Prine	It's A Big Old Goofy World The Missing Years (1991)
11.	John Prine	Crazy As A Loon Fair & Square (2005)
12.	John Prine	Often Is A Word I Seldom Use Sweet Revenge (1973)
13.	John Prine	Spanish Pipedream John Prine (1971)
14.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Onomatopoeia Sweet Revenge (1973)
15.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Grandpa Was A Carpenter Sweet Revenge (1973)
16.	John Prine	Daddy's Little Pumpkin The Missing Years (1991)
17.	John Prine	Humidity Built The Snowman Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (1995)
18.	John Prine	Everything Is Cool The Missing Years (1991)
19.	John Prine	Quiet Man John Prine (1971)
20.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	The Late John Garfield Blues Diamonds in the Rough (1972)

Disc 2
Track	Artist	Title
1.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Souvenirs Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
2.	John Prine	Storm Windows Souvenirs (2000)
3.	John Prine	Unwed Fathers Aimless Love (1984)
4.	John Prine	Six O'Clock News Souvenirs (2000)
5.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Sour Grapes Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
6.	John Prine	People Puttin' People Down Souvenirs (2000)
7.	John Prine	Angel From Montgomery Souvenirs (2000)
8.	John Prine	Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) Bruised Orange (1978)
9.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Sweet Revenge Sweet Revenge (1973)
10.	John Prine	You Never Can Tell Common Sense (1975)
11.	John Prine	Quit Hollerin' At Me Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (1995)
12.	John Prine	Middleman Common Sense (1975)
13.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Mexican Home Sweet Revenge (1973)
14.	John Prine	That Close To You Common Sense (1975)
15.	John Prine with Tom Petty	Picture Show The Missing Years (1991)
16.	John Prine	Milwaukee Here I Come In Spite of Ourselves)
17.	John Prine	Dear Abby Sweet Revenge (1973)
18.	John Prine	The Sins Of Memphisto The Missing Years (1991)

Disc 3
Track	Artist	Title
1.	John Prine with Iris DeMent	(We're Not) The Jet Set In Spite Of Ourselves)
2.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
3.	John Prine	There She Goes Bruised Orange (1978)
4.	John Prine with Iris DeMent	In Spite Of Ourselves In Spite Of Ourselves)
5.	John Prine	Long Monday Fair & Square (2005)
6.	John Prine with Fiona Prine	'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose In Spite Of Ourselves)
7.	John Prine with Dolores Keane	In A Town This Size In Spite Of Ourselves)
8.	John Prine	Far From Me Souvenirs (2000)
9.	John Prine	Aimless Love Aimless Love (1984)
10.	John Prine	The Other Side Of Town Fair & Square (2005)
11.	John Prine	I Love You So Much It Hurts Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (1995)
12.	John Prine	One Red Rose Storm Windows (1980)
13.	John Prine with Emmylou Harris	I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves (1999)
14.	John Prine & Mac Wiseman	I Forgot to Remember to Forget Standard Songs for Average People 2007)
15.	John Prine	Lake Marie Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (1995)
16.	John Prine	Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone Bruised Orange (1978)
17.	John Prine	Jesus the Missing Years The Missing Years (1991)
18.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Rocky Mountain Time Diamonds in the Rough (1972)
19.	John Prine with Steve Goodman	Flashback Blues John Prine (1971)

Prine to me is just like breathing, to paraphrase him, listening to him "just comes natural". I was telling George that for me, listening to him is like what my grandpa said about eating Grandma’s angel food cake, it was “…like holding your mouth open and letting the moonlight go down your throat…”

I first heard “Paradise” sung by my Uncle Jim on a family outing on the Osage River when I was 5. He had learned it from the tape my Uncle Daryl had given him. I have been a full-fledged Prine fan ever since and was proud to find tickets to see him (with my uncle and his girlfriend, along with ika and doowadette) last February. Here are what I would consider not the most essential (you can find that elsewhere), but on these 3 roughly 65 minute disks, I have my favorite Prine tunes.

Since I have been putting this together since the concert, Bob Dylan, in promoting his new album, has revealed what he likes about Prine in a recent interview:

Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about “Sam Stone” the soldier junky daddy and “Donald and Lydia,” where people make love from ten miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that. If I had to pick one song of his, it might be “Lake Marie.” I don’t remember what album that’s on.

Family Tradition 2

2009-05-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

1.	Ernie	Rubber Duckie
2.	Bobby Darin	Splish Splash
3.	The Beatles	Yellow Submarine
4.	The Beatles	Octopus's Garden
5.	The Beatles	Maxwell's Silver Hammer
6.	Ray Stevens	Gitarzan
7.	Leroy Pullins	I'm A Nut
8.	Roger Miller	You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
9.	Ron Howard	Gary, Indiana
10.	Homer & Jethro	I'm My Own Grandpaw
11.	Kilby Snow and Wade Ward	She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
12.	Doc Watson	Mama Don't Allow No Music
13.	Woody Guthrie	Buffalo Gals
14.	Johnny Cash	Ah Bos Cee Dah
15.	Bob Dylan & The Hawks	Apple Suckling Tree
16.	Rolf Harris'	Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
17.	John Williamson	Old Man Emu
18.	Steve Blunt & Joseph B. Carringer	Kookaburra
19.	Peter, Paul & Mary	Puff (The Magic Dragon)
20.	Kermit	Rainbow Connection

Rubber Duckie is back by popular demand. The challenge of this is to match the uncle’s OCD with the nephew’s short - attention span. Even though the CDs I give him are as austere as can be (just the title written in sharpie), my sister says he recognizes each one. The two country ones for doowadette that I made a copy for him are referred to as “Johnny” and Family Tradition 1 is “D” and this one is “Ernie”. Not bad for a boy who turned 2 this week…

Thanks to Johnny Dark for his “Emu” contribution while searching for the definitive version of Kookaburra (never quite found), thanks to RetroJoe for the many versions of Puff (sorry I went back to the original, thanks to Brother Funky and many others of you for that as well), thanks to doowadette for the Buffalo Gals, and to Bob for the Rolf Harris. Rainbow Connection is by request of my sister (who I’m not sure will be happy with Maxwell Silver Hammer since according to my daughter, she was not happy with Bungalow Bill, but I know it is one of his dad’s favorite Beatles tunes).

40 días 2009: Old-Timey Version (2 CDs)

2009-05-08T09:45:00.000-07:00

Disc 1
Track	Artist	Title
1.	Fred Astaire with Chorus	Happy Easter
2.	The Original Tuxedo "Jass" Band	Eh La Bas
3.	Nathan Abshire	Crying Pine Grove Blues
4.	Otis Mote	Tight Like That
5.	Homer & Jethro	I Want to Be Happy
6.	Cliff Bruner	Too Wet To Plow
7.	Aguila Negra	De Colores
8.	Harry Choates	Jole Blond
9.	Ward Allen	Bread N Butter
10.	Emmett Miller	Lovesick Blues
11.	The Louvin Brothers	I Wish You Knew
12.	The Dixon Brothers	Dark Eyes
13.	Rutherford, Burnett and Moore	She's A Flower From The Fields Of Alabama
14.	Willie Lee Harris	Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door
15.	Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers	Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister
16.	The Allen Brothers	Unlucky Man
17.	Dock Boggs	Down South Blues
18.	G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter	He Is Coming To Us Dead
19.	James Muldowney	Rolling on the Rye Grass
20.	Mother Maybelle Carter	Wildwood Flower
21.	John Snipes	Ain't Gonna Rain No More
22.	Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers	Neath The Purple On The Hills
23.	The Original Carter Family	The Birds Were Singing Of You
24.	Curly Fox & Texas Ruby	Whistlewood
25.	Ruben Burns & The Short Creek Trio	Nobody's Business

Disc 2
Track	Artist	Title
1.	The Blue Sky Boys	The Butcher's Boy
2.	The Williamson Brothers with Curry	The Funs All Over
3.	The Dallas String Band with Colley Jones	Chasin' Rainbows
4.	Nelston's Hawaiians	Adam & Eve
5.	Bill Monroe	Shining Path
6.	The Delmore Brothers	Are You Marching With The Savior
7.	Grandpa Jones	Light In His Soul
8.	The Nugrape Twins	Pray Children If You Want to Go to Heaven.
9.	Hank Williams, Sr.	The Old Country Church
10.	Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers	Sweeping Through The Gates
11.	Rev. Gary Davis	I Didn't Want To Join The Band
12.	Blind Roger Hays	On My Way to Heaven
13.	Mississippi John Hurt	Blessed Be The Name
14.	Skip James	Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
15.	The Carolina Tar Heels	When The Good Lord Sets You Free
16.	Eli Framer	God Didnt Make No Monkey Man
17.	Buddy Moss	Unfinished Business
18.	Molly O'Day	The Black Sheep Returned To The Fold
19.	Ernest V. Stoneman	He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me
20.	Riley Puckett	On The Other Side of Jordan
21.	Brown's Ferry Four	Everybody Will Be Happy Over There
22.	Alfred G. Karnes	I Called To The Foreign Field
23.	Black Bottom McPhail	My Dream Blues
24.	Geechie Wiley	Last Kind Words
25.	Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley	Wayfaring Pilgrim

Well, since today is Easter Sunday for the Orthodox church, I felt it was appropriate to offer these last two disks of music I acquired during my Lenten Sabbatical this year, inspired by Charles K. Wolf excellent overview of Classic Country. Like its modern counterpart, the themes ebb and flow, but hold up for the most part on disk 2.

As an added note, I would like to dedicate this to my friend George who has encouraged my digging for old-timey material. In fact, much of this were left off my choices for the Gutbucket Brother’s Easter offering. I know this most appeals to George and I (and probably Brother Funky), but hope you can enjoy it as well.

PS: I couldn’t resist the first track even though it is a bit pop for the rest. Oh, and the Aguila Negra track gave me enough justification to keep the 40 días moniker.

40 días 2009 — A little more salvation and a lot of frustration (4 CDs)

2009-05-08T09:41:00.000-07:00

Disc 1
Track	Artist	Title
1.	Muddy Waters	Forty Days and Forty Nights
2.	Bobby 'Blue' Bland	Yield Not to Temptation
3.	Desmond Dekker	Israelites
4.	Richard Thompson	A Solitary Life
5.	Johnny Darrell	These Days
6.	Don McLean	Magdalene Lane
7.	David Bowie	Quicksand
8.	Anathallo	The River
9.	Deer Tick	Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)
10.	The Tallest Man On Earth	I Won't Be Found
11.	Bajofondo com Elvis Costello	Fairly Right
12.	Daniel Lanois	Amazing Grace
13.	Ely Guerra	Lágrimas de agua salada
14.	Jens Lekman	The Opposite of Hallelujah
15.	Scott Walker	Rosary
16.	Antony & The Johnsons	Shake That Devil
17.	Marianne Faithfull	Hold on Hold On
18.	TV On The Radio	Snakes and Martyrs
19.	Dead Can Dance	How Fortunate The Man With None

Disc 2
Track	Artist	Title
1.	Low	Fear
2.	Real De Catorce	Voy A Morir
3.	David Hirschfelder	Moments of Genius
4.	Beirut	La Llorona
5.	Celso Piña	Si Mañana
6.	John Jorgenson	Waltze for Mary
7.	Eric Fernández	Shalom Israel
8.	13th Floor Elevators	Rose and the Thorn
9.	Don Cornelio y la Zona	El rosario en el muro
10.	Dr. Dog	The Ark
11.	The White Stripes	Death Letter
12.	Lucinda Williams	Tears of Joy
13.	Carrie Rodriguez	Infinite Night
14.	Julieta Venegas	Voluntad
15.	DeVotchka	La Llorona
16.	Mieka Pauley	Fate Day By Day
17.	Jenny Lewis	The Next Messiah
18.	PJ Harvey	We Float
19.	Emiliana Torrini	Fisherman's Woman
20.	Son Volt	Dead Man's Clothes
21.	Eliza Carthy	Poor Little Me

Disc 3
Track	Artist	Title
1.	Gilberto Gil	Guerra Santa
2.	Donovan	Three King Fishers
3.	Oni Wytars Ensemble	Kyrie eleison
4.	Tom Waits	Dragging A Dead Priest
5.	Louis Armstrong with Dave Brubeck	They Say I Look Like
6.	Donato e seu Conjunto	Se Acaso Você Chegasse
7.	Pedro Guerra	Hijas de Eva
8.	P.T. Balada	Escandalos privados
9.	Topol	Tradition
10.	Alfredo Zitarrosa & María Vidal	Arroz con leche
11.	Jacob Do Bandolim	Doce de Coco
12.	Joao Gilberto	Meditaçao
13.	Antonio Carlos Jobim	Chovendo Na Roseira
14.	Bob Dylan	04 Gates Of Eden
15.	Fairport Convention	Some Sweet Day
16.	Bon Iver	Blood Bank
17.	Strawfoot	The Lord's Wrath
18.	Uncle Tupelo	Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
19.	Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	Death Final
20.	Laura Gibson	Spirited
21.	The Godz	May You Never Be Alone
22.	The Handsome Family	Bottomless Hole
23.	Innocence Mission	Brotherhood of Man
24.	Y La Bamba	Fasting in San Francisco

Disc 4
Track	Artist	Title
1.	Rilo Kiley	The Absence of God
2.	The Black Keys	All You Ever Wanted
3.	Justin Townes Earle	Someday I'll Be Forgiven for This
4.	Ray LaMontagne	A Falling Through
5.	Gillian Welch	Rock of Ages
6.	Neko Case	Alone And Forsaken
7.	Ralph Stanley	Distant Land to Roam
8.	Down Home Praise	Sea Of Life
9.	Gram Parsons	Searchin'
10.	Rose Maddox	Blood Stained Hands
11.	Ramblin' Jack Elliot	Death Don't Have No Mercy
12.	Kris Kristofferson with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Gold Watch and Chain
13.	Buddy & Julie Miller	Forever Has Come To An End
14.	John Doe & The Sadies	It Just Dawned On Me
15.	Cisco Houston	Passing Through
16.	Jerry Douglas	A New Day Medley
17.	Michelle Shocked	A Child Like Grace
18.	Buddy Miller	There's a Higher Power
19.	Bob Dylan	Pressing On
20.	Tom Waits & The Kronos Quartet	Always Keep A Diamond In Your Mind

Living 7 years in one of the centers of Mexican Catholicism (Guadalajara) influenced me in more ways than I probably realize. In any case, the tradition of giving up some form of pleasure or temptation for Lent is something I didn’t really do before I moved to Mexico.

This is the second year that I give up a large part of my cyber-life during this time of year.

And, as I said last year, although I give up the Art of the Mix (among others), I do not give up the art of the mix…

What this tradition gives me as well is a chance to explore new (to me) artists and continue to feed my music jones.

Here you have the result of these 40 days and 40 nights (though technically it was 46 since I didn’t take the “free” Sundays that the Church allows).

And, in some way, somewhat, somehow thematically-related in whatever genre struck my fancy….

Back to Back to Basics

2009-02-24T08:50:00.001-08:00

My uncle Daryl was my first musical mentor. We have traded music and mixes for over 20 years. Two years ago, I made a series of mixes for him called Back to Basics. This Friday we are going to see John Prine here in St. Louis with Daryl and his girlfriend. This mix is about getting back to that same mood, but with hopefully a few pleasant surprises for him. As you can see, not necessarily a best of 08, but with less of my usual suspects.

PS
I want to thank Barry via Anthony for The Broken Family Band, also Anthony proper for the Okkervil River, George for the Linda and (not that) Robin Williams, and, last but far from least, Dean for the Eliza Gilkyson as well as his impeccable artwork.

Disk 1
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Van Dyke Parks - FDR In Trinidad
Ry Cooder - Steel Guitar Heaven
Richard Thompson - Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Wilco - Tried and True
Rick Danko Band - Crazy Mama
John Prine - Ain't Hurtin' Nobody
Greg Brown - Evening Call
The Black Keys - Things Aint Like They Used to Be
Bob Dylan - Dreamin’ Of You
Calexico - The Black Light
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Eliza Gilkyson - Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson
Mark Olson - Decembers Child
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Trampled Rose
Bottle Rockets - Early in the Morning
Paul Brady - Arthur McBride & The Sergeant
Neil Young - Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing

Disk 2
Jeff Tweedy - Simple Twist of Fate
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
The Cowboy Junkies - Still Lost
The Broken Family Band - Living in Sin
Bright Eyes - Another Travelin' Song
Old 97s - Here's to the Halcyon
Webb Wilder - The Rest (Will Take Care Of Itself)
Jason Ringenberg - Shop It Around
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
K.C. McKanzie - Razorblade
Okkervil River - Song of Our So-Called Friend
Old & In the Gray - Gold Old Boys
Abigail Washburn - Coffee's Cold
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot - San Francisco Bay Blues
Kristin Stewart with Emile Hirsch - Angel from Montgomery
Robin Williams - Ramblin' Man
The Jayhawks - Waiting for the Sun
Eddie Vedder - No Ceiling
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths - Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
John Prine - Clay Pigeons
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Linda Williams - So Long, See You Tomorrow

Family Tradition 1

2009-02-21T10:47:00.001-08:00

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)
The Beatles - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Toots & Maytals - Monkey Man
Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Cab Calloway with the Two-Headed Monster - The Hi De Ho Man
Spike Jones - Yes! We Have No Bananas2
Cri-Cri - Ratón Vaquero
The Beatles - Piggies
Bruce Springsteen - Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips
The Coasters - Yakety Yak
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula
Roy Orbison - Candy Man
Chuck Berry - Too Pooped To Pop
Neil Young & The Shocking Pinks - Cry, Cry, Cry
Brian Wilson - Little Children
John Prine - Picture Show
The Raiders - Indian Reservation
The Monkees - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Eldridge Holmes - Pop, Popcorn Children
Rufus Thomas - Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Rosie Flores - Red, Red Robin
Louis Jordan - Beans and Cornbread
Bob Dylan - This Old Man
Chet Atkins - I'm My Own Grandpaw
Johnny Cash - One and One Makes Two
The Beatles - Rocky Racoon
The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor
Charlie Brown - King of the Road
Ernie - Rubber Duckie

My family is big on traditions and one tradition I want to carry on is passing along music to my nephews, as my uncle did for me. This is for the oldest of my nephews, who is not yet two (his mother, my sister, also has twin boys born last November so, yes, she has her hands full). We are going to visit them later today, so I wanted to bring a sorpresita for my nephew, who is also my Godson.

It was a big of a challenge to find songs that could work with his attention-span and I’m sure I didn’t succeed 100%, but based on how much he liked the Prine, Johnny Cash and Dylan from the copy of Redneck 10/Monkey 12 that Doowadette allowed me to copy for him, I think he’ll like it.

The album cover is a (better) copy of a thirty-five year old LP I still have. Aprendí mis primeras palabras en español con Don Gato.

Eulogy

2009-02-13T12:08:00.001-08:00

Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Uncle Tupelo - The Long Cut
Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Open The Door, Homer
Louis Jordan - Open the Door, Richard
Solomon Burke - Diamond in Your Mind
Bob Dylan - Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Country Wine
Professor Longhair - Rum and Coca-Cola
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bootleg
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Beer Ain't Drinkin'
Buddy Guy - Strange Brew
Little Walter - Moonshine Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson - The Goat
Tom Waits - Get Behind the Mule
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Cluck Old Hen
R.E.M. - Gentle on my Mind
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Death Is Not The End

Three of these songs were quoted in my eulogy, the rest have been running through my head since Grandpa died last week, especially the after-funeral drunken bash we had in his honor at Grandma’s house.

Unterrified Democrat Redux

2009-02-05T15:43:00.000-08:00

Keith Carradine - Born Again American
Amos Lee - Jails and Bombs
Neil Young - After the Garden
James McMurtry - Cheney’s Toy
Billy Bragg - To Have and to Have Not
Kris Kristofferson - Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down
Steve Earle - Steve's Hammer (For Pete)
Charlie Louvin with Jeff Tweedy - Great Atomic Power
Neko Case - Things That Scare Me
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Night of the Lotus Eaters
Alejandro Escovedo - People (We’re Only Gonna Live So Long)
Mano Negra - Hamburger Fields
Ray Davies - Vietnam Cowboys
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Jesus At McDonalds
Firewater - Feels Like the End of the World

This is another mix for for my uncle, he played me the Carradine song off youtube and loved it so I built this around it with tunes with mostly similar sentiments, focusing on newer acquisitions. I have been giving him so much music lately, I was glad that he was able to turn me on to some new things that weekend. Oh, and later that night, we saw Manu Chao on Austin City Limits too and so I thought I'd share the most gringo-accessible tune I knew of from Manu’s oeuvre. The rest was just kind of keeping on-topic, sometimes not so much, sometimes just plain silly.

La Ley de Herodes

2009-01-07T11:47:00.000-08:00

1. Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela - Danzón no. 2 [excerpt]
2. Pedro J. González & Los Madrugadores - Sueños de oro
3. Conjunto Colonial de Nelo Sosa - Desde abajo
4. Celia Cruz con la Sonora Matancera - Rico Changüin
5. Dámaso Pérez Prado - Tomcat Mambo
6. Tin Tan - Piel canela
7. Toña La Negra - El cacahuatero
8. Tony De La Rosa - Una cualquiera
9. Alma de Apatzingán - El padre contrabandista
10. Kevin Johansen - Cliché latino cliché gringo
11. Manuel Galbán con Ry Cooder - Caballo viejo
12. Trío Matamoros - Él que siembra su maíz (que se coma su pinole)
13. Chavela Vargas - Desdeñosa
14. Café Tacvba - El puñal y el corazón
15. Chabuca Granda - En la margen opuesta
16. Los Panchos - Mi último fracaso
17. Chavela Vargas - De un mundo raro

La Ley de Herodes (Herod’s Law) is, in Mexico, “O te chingas o te jodes”, which basically means “F*** your neighbor before he f***s you.” The phrase does not transpose culturally since chingar is a bit stronger, basically what the Spanish did to the Indigenous populations throughout Mexico. In any case, modern Mexicans can blame the Spanish or gringos or whatever for their ills, but if they would simply stop taking advantage of each other (as represented in the film), real progress could be made.

The film is set in 1949, as the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or the PRI in Spanish) was really hitting its stride in the midst of its 71 year run (longer than the Bolsheviks) at the top of the Mexican pyramid. The movie was released (and initially blocked) in 1999, the year before the PRI lost power.

The man who gets drunk with power, Juan Vargas, is portrayed by my favorite Mexican Actor, Damián Alcázar. The director is Luis Estrada. Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, etc.), who shows up so often in modern Mexican cinema, has a pivotal role as “El Gringo”.

Regarding the mix, I wanted to be faithful to the time period as much as possible, where Mexican and Cuban music blended so naturally between danzón, mambo and tríos. The selections I picked represent themes of the movie as well as individual characters (the corrupt priest, the gringo cliché, the whores, as well as Vargas himself).

The theme running through the movie, prior to the dénouement, is represented by Él que siembra su maíz (que se coma su pinole), bascially a Cuban-Mexican way of saying that you reap what you sow. I picked the Tacvba song both for its thematic relevance to the subject at hand as well as a tribute to that classic Pedro Infante film, Nosotros los pobres. And much like a jazz lover's preference for later-period Billie Holiday, I opted for the less sweet, more hardened version of the closing song, from Chavela’s 2004 album, which matches the tone of the film’s ending.

The Clock Is Striking Twelve

2008-12-22T18:09:00.000-08:00

1. T-Bone Walker– Midnight
2. Sir Douglas Quintet– T-Bone Shuffle
3. Muddy Waters– Last Time I Fool Around With You
4. Little Willie John– Uh Uh Baby
5. The White Stripes– Party of Special Things to Do
6. Boo Boo Davis– Talkin' 'Bout My Dogs
7. Memphis Slim– Messin' Around
8. Amos Milburn– Chicken Shack Boogie
9. Johnny Ace– How Can You Be So Mean
10. Sunnyland Slim– She Ain't Nowhere
11. Bobby 'Blue' Bland– Good Time Charlie, Pt. 1
12. Alexis Korner– Somethin' You Got
13. David Johansen And The Harry Smiths– Don't Start Me Talking
14. Sonny Boy Williamson II– She Brought Life Back to the Dead
15. Little Walter– Tell Me Mama
16. The Chambers Brothers– Oh Baby, You Don't Have to Go
17. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown– Midnight Hour
18. Albert King– If You Got It
19. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers– Fender Bender
20. The Sonics– Keep A Knockin
21. Little Richard– Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
22. The Mothers of Invention– Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder

This was my entry to a New Year’s mix-off challenge. When I first heard of it, the first line of the first song popped into my head and the rest of the mix pretty much flowed from there.

Mixing With Myself

2008-10-26T20:08:00.000-07:00

I have had a lot of fun over the past few months since the inception of the Mutual Appreciation Society. However, a couple of them have not exactly panned out, withered on the vine or whatever cliché you prefer.

In any case, since I had these lists hanging around, I decided to see if I could merge them and make something out of nothing. I was going to leave this in the alt-dj category (nixed however due to the new protections here) because by melding different concepts together, I basically was, to paraphrase the immortal words of Billy Idol, mixing with myself...

1. Steve Earle – Breed
2. Nirvana – Son of a Gun
3. Café Tacvba – Pinche Juan
4. Johnny Thunders – London Boys
5. The Sex Pistols – New York
6. Violent Femmes – Positively 4th Street
7. Elvis Costello – I’m Not Angry
8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Come On Down To My House
9. Warren Zevon – Rub Me Raw
10. The Rolling Stones with Ry Cooder – Memo From Turner
11. Alejandro Escovedo – Castanets
12. Spacemen 3 – Walking With Jesus
13. Magnetic Fields – Take Ecstasy With Me
14. Los Bohemios – Qué chica tan formal
15. The Rolling Stones – Doncha Bother Me
16. New York Dolls – (There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown
17. Del Shannon – Move It on Over
18. The Who – La-La-La Lies
19. Simon & Garfunkel – A Simple Desultory Philippic
20. Bob Dylan – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
21. Dudley Sibley – Love in Our Nation
22. The Beach Boys – Hang On To Your Ego

The Best of Pizza Hippie Samplers

2008-10-04T11:40:00.000-07:00

This one is dedicated to Sammy, Rupert, Ethel and all the other pizza hippies at AotM.

It was a cold March evening in Columbia, 1993. Steve and I were making our normal rounds up and down 9th street, from quarter beers at 9th street deli to burgers at Booche’s and finally down at Shakespeare’s Pizza, looking for a vagabond guitarist to accompany our crooning. At a certain point in our evenings and at a certain state of mind, Steve would get the urge for us to duet on his favorite American Country & Western Songs, you know, tunes like Dead Flowers, Runaway Eyes, Sweet Virginia, etc.

Well, we didn’t find the guitarist, but we started off with some hackneyed version of Sympathy for the Devil, which was country enough for us at the time. The “kids” (2 years younger than me at the time) on the sidewalk looked at us as if we had just gotten off our spaceship. For me, the look they gave us was a sign that my time in Columbia and the States was coming to an end. But Steve summed it up perfectly back up in his apartment when he said, as I pulled his muffler off from around his neck, “Those God-Damn PIZZA hippies!”

And thus was born a new catch phrase, to describe the Lollapaloser generation, of which we were more than glad to be “above” with our Billie Holiday, Stooges, Burning Spear and Mose Allison, among others. It seemed that most of those “kids” thought that Pearl Jam had invented rock n’ roll and had no grasp of their roots. And of course, in Kaufmannesque fashion, the funniest joke is only understood by one person (or in this case three people).

Shakespeare’s at that time still served the best pizza you ever had, now they have over-expanded and the quality has gone down. My artwork here is a tribute to the restaurant and cult-like status that Shakespeare’s has attained among my fellow Missouri alumni. Tim (Steve’s roommate) and I would typically order our favorite Italian sausage, black olives and pepper cheese at 1 in the morning after Steve had gone to bed. The Wad reminded me later that “not once did you bastards ever offer me a piece”. As an added tradition, Tim would forget that we were one block from the restaurant so the pie would arrive literally out of the oven and he would always burn the roof of his mouth, the degree of which rose proportionally in relation to his state of inebriation at the time.

Anyway, back to the music, I realize now that ignoring Indie Rock was to my own detriment. We were just too caught up in our own coolness to enjoy it or even take it seriously. I did enjoy Nevermind and Pearl Jam and some of the other easily-heard “indie” (for lack of a better term) artists, but I preferred to dig back, into the gutbucket roots of all things pre- and post-Dylan, for lack of a better phrase…

Steve and I soon graduated, I moved to Mexico, got married and settled down in Guadalajara all in the same summer. I got a job teaching high school English and my teenage students and I connected on a certain number of artists, but still mainly the Seattle scene and others. As a Neil Young freak, it was easy to latch on to J. Mascis.

However, it was my wife’s cousin Gabriel, in about 1995, who was a year or two older than me, who finally turned a switch in with a mix tape containing many of these artists. Still tied up with the old fart influence of The Wad, I mockingly titled his mix “Pizza Hippie Sampler”. But then I really started listening to it and realized how great that music could be. He even mixed in familiar artists (Mellencamp, the Doors) for flavor and to appeal to my wood hippie nature. The one that really turned me on was the Jesus & Mary Chain track here, then Pixies, and then Spiritualized, and then the Stone Roses. Soon, I borrowed several of his CDs to make my own samplers of my favorites. I held on to those cassettes in the intervening 13 years and handed them off to my buddy Strange Loop earlier this year to rip to MP3s. This mix collects my favorites of the favorites. The sound quality of all of them may not be the sharpest, but they did travel 3000 km in a hot moving van 8 years ago.

I have used a few of these tunes here and there on alt-djs, etc., but this particular mix idea has been simmering in the back of my head since I digitized those cassettes. And I have explored the Pizza Hippie concept before as well. Now this week, between her country and gutbucket mixes, e.buster has inspired me to work outside my comfort zone. As they say at Shakespeare’s, “It's the pizza, stupid. And maybe the beer. Everything else can go fly."

1. Frente! – Ordinary Angels
2. The Sundays – Joy
3. Pale Saints – Half-Life, Remembered
4. Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us
5. The Darkside – Waiting for the Angels
6. The Field Mice – If You Need Someone
7. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Girlfriend
8. Verve – Slide Away
9. The Dylans – Lemon Afternoon
10. The Boo Radleys – Lazarus
11. Spiritualized – Run
12. Charlatans UK – Indian Rope
13. The Stone Roses – Made Of Stone
14. Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven
15. Blur – Chemical World
16. Veruca Salt – Seether
17. Dinosaur, Jr. – Blah
18. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siva
19. Moose – Jack
20. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
21. Sugar – Tilted

Yo también sé jugarme la boca

2008-08-26T10:16:00.000-07:00

Joaquín Sabina was born in Úbeda, Spain on February, 12 1949. He has earned his spot among the godfathers of Ibero-American rock. What I most respect of artists such as Sabina is that the music they were creating was truly subversive in the face of real oppression. More than McCarthyistic blacklists, they risked imprisonment and death, whether in Franco’s Spain (like Sabina) or under the dictatorships of Chile, Brazil and Argentina (Victor Jara, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso, Charly García respectively). Obviously, Jara did not survive, but it is a testament to the other’s strength of will or Sir Robinesque cunning, that they are still making great music today.

Sabina’s solution was to live in exile in London. In 1975, he happened to perform at the same bar where George Harrison was celebrating his birthday. Legend has it that George gave him a 5 pound tip for his performance. When Franco died that year, Sabina wandered back to Madrid. He eventually recorded 14 studio albums and a few live albums.

Another side note is that when he wrote “En Su Bikini” to the tune of “Man Gave Names to All the Animals” in 1980, Mr. Zimmerman’s lawyers came down hard on him and that song has yet to see the light of day. I am hoping to uncover it on some Sabina bootleg in one of my Mexican tianguis culturales. In any case, it did not diminish Sabin’s admiration for Bob and he even wrote an extensive article in celebration of Dylan’s 1984 European tour (source of the Real Live album for those Dylan freaks out there).

Sabina deals with themes similar to Dylan –perception, sincerity, his own mortality, the battle with the muse, patriotism, and of course love and sex (two songs about whores, one about premature ejaculation and another about Almodovar's cheezy women/trannies). Sabina is definitely more self-referential and self-deprecating than say Dylan, perhaps closer to Cohen in that respect. I have tried to represent these themes as well as possible in these 16 tracks from his obras completas.

1. Yo también sé jugarme la boca – Dímelo En La Calle (2002)
2. La canción más hermosa del mundo – Dímelo En La Calle (2002)
3. Pongamos que hablo de Madrid – Malas compañías (1980)
4. Máter España – Alivio de Luto (2005)
5. A mis cuarenta y diez – 19 Días y 500 Noches (1999)
6. ¿Quién me ha robado el mes de Abril? – El hombre del traje gris (1988)
7. Manual para héroes o canallas – Malas compañías (1980)
8. Círculos viciosos – Malas compañías (1980)
9. Mas de cien mentiras – Esta boca es mía (1994)
10. Barbi Superestar – 19 Días y 500 Noches (1999)
11. Una canción para la Magdalena – 19 Días y 500 Noches (1999)
12. Yo quiero ser una chica Almodóvar – Física y Química (1992)
13. Ya eyaculé – Dímelo En La Calle (2002)
14. 19 días y 500 noches – 19 Días y 500 Noches (1999)
15. La del pirata cojo – Física y Química (1992)
16. Eh, Sabina – Ruleta Rusa (1984)

Gringo Latino, Vol. 3: Border Town Blues

2008-08-16T18:44:00.001-07:00

A few songs here were the core of my original Gringo Latino tape. Mucho de Texas Tornados, a güevo, antes decía no me importaban que me dijeran Gringo, a menos que no me digan ni Pinche ni Puto Gringo. Ahora ‘gringo’ se me hace de lo más peyorativo.

Oh, two versions of the same song by the same artist, five and a half songs by another artist, two versions of the same song (actually two versions each of four different songs), with filler by Charlie Chaplin, Roy Buchanan, Dylan & Robert Earl Keen. Are there really rules to mixing? Who cares if it sounds right.

1. Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – A Border Tragedy
2. Bob Dylan – Santa Fe
3. Marty Robbins – El Paso
4. Marty Robbins – El Paso City
5. The Texas Tornados – Laredo Rose
6. Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – The Streets of Laredo
7. The Texas Tornados – Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?
8. Dwight Yoakam with The Texas Tornados – Carmelita
9. Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Eldorado
11. Johnny Cash – Streets of Laredo
12. Lyle Lovett – The Road to Ensenada
13. The Texas Tornados – Pancho & Lefty
14. Warren Zevon – Carmelita
15. Nina Simone – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
16. Charlie Chaplin – Texas - Texas Border
17. Los Lobos – Saint Behind the Glass
18. The Texas Tornados – Rosalita
19. Sir Douglas Quintet – Nuevo Laredo
20. Roy Buchanan – Hey Joe
21. Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty

Gringo Latino, Vol. 2: Los mojados (Aunque la jaula sea de oro, no deja de ser prisión-2 CDs)

2008-08-07T04:27:00.000-07:00

Dos puntos de vista, uno de cincuenta años después del otro, y la misma pinche historia.

Aquí estoy establecido, en los Estados Unidos, 10 años pasaron ya, en que cruce de mojado,
papeles no arreglados, sigo siendo un ilegal.
Tengo a mi esposa y a mis hijos que me los traje muy chicos y se han olvidado ya de mi México querido del cual yo nunca me olvido y no puedo regresar.

Mis hijos no hablan conmigo, otro idioma han aprendido y olvidado del español,
piensan como americanos, niegan que son mexicanos aunque tengan mi color.
Casi no salgo a la calle pues tengo miedo que me hallen y me puedan deportar

De que me sirve el dinero si estoy como prisionero dentro de esta gran nación
cuando me acuerdo hasta lloro que aunque la jaula sea de oro, no deja de ser prisión.

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting, the oranges are piled in their cresote dumps
They're flying you back to the Mexico border, to pay all your money to wade back again
My father's own father, he wanted that river, they took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, and they rode the truck till they took down and died

Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted, our work contract's out and we have to move on
But it's six hundred miles to that Mexican border, they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, we died in your valleys and died on your plains
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes, both sides of the river, we died just the same.

A sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon, like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?, The radio says they are just deportees.
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?, Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil, and be called by no name except deportees?
Good-bye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita, adíos mis amigos, Jesús y María
You won't have a name when you ride the big air-plane, and all they will call you will be deportees.

1

Lila – "How do you make the invisible visible?"
Bruce Springsteen – Matamoros Banks
Ricardo Arjona con Intocable – Mojado
Los Tigres del Norte – La jaula de oro
Lila Downs – Mi corazón me recuerda
Sergio Arau – California Dreaming (mariachi)
Hoyt Axton & Arlo Guthrie – Deportees
Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers to Cross
Freddy Fen*der & Ry Cooder – Across the Borderline
Los Lobos – Will the Wolf Survive?
Alejandro Escovedo – Across the River
Facundo Cabral – Yo fui todos los hombres
Julieta Venegas – Jaula de oro
Manu Chao – Clandestino
The Melodians – Rivers of Babylon
Lila Downs – El bracero fracasado
Flaco Jiménez – Un mojado sin licencia
Los Tigres del Norte – La tumba del mojado
Los Super Seven – See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Eric Clapton – Traveling Riverside Blues
Esqueleto – "I Hate All the Orphans in the World"
Tom Waits – Misery is the River of the World
Mano Negra – Sueño de solentiname
Lila Downs – La Línea

2

Los Tigres del Norte – El mojado acaudalado
Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio – Mojado (en vivo)
Molotov – Gimme tha Power
Los Tigres del Norte – Somos más americanos
Ritmo Peligroso – Un día sin mexicanos
Los Lobos – Good morning, Aztlán
Tijuana No – Cowboys Asesinos
Manu Chao – Welcome to Tijuana
Sergio Arau – Hotel California
Bruce Springsteen – Across the Border
Bob Dylan & She Who Shall Not Be Named – Deportees
Galibondo Solder – El ratón vaquero
Cheech Marin & Tommy Chong – Mexican-Americans/Beaners
Molotov – Frijolero
Kinky Friedman & the Rolling Thunder Revue – Asshole from El Paso (en vivo)
Los Tigres del Norte – Tres veces mojado
Los Super Seven – Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)
Alejandro Escovedo – Rosalie
El Tri con Carlos Santana – Virgen morena
Los Tigres del Norte – Las mujeres de Juárez
Freddy Fen*der – Vaya con Dios
Bob Neuwirth – Rosalie

Gringo Latino, Vol. 1: Lo básico (Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes – 2 CDs)

2008-08-04T19:37:00.000-07:00

I have made and re-made this mix several times over the years. The base inspiration came while landing in St. Louis after my second stay in México at 19. I happened to hear the Carlos/Willie track for the first time at the end of some music I taped off some friends. Literally hearing "They take the truck south to St Louis MO...torcycle all the way to Mexico" as the plane touched down.

When I got off the plane, I suddenly noticed kindred spirits throughout my tape collection (mostly Bob & Jimmy, Neil and the aforementioned Havana Moon album). From my birth in Panamá and my first visit to México at 16, I felt my soul had come home.

Hasta pronto...

1
Los Lobos – Once Upon a Time in México
Robert Earle Keen, Jr. – The Road Goes on Forever
Doug Sahm – Baby, Let's Go to México
The Band – Yazoo Street Scandal
John Mayall – Mexico City
J.J. Cale – Bringing it Back (From México)
Arlo Guthrie – Coming into Los Ángeles
Kinky Friedman – Asshole from El Paso
Texas Tornadoes – Guacamole
Steve Goodman with John Prine – How Much Tequila Did I Drink Last Night?
Freddy Fender – Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Wild Gods of México
Waylon Jennings – Ain't No God in México
Bob Dylan – Hills of México
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – South of the Border (Down MéxicoWay)
Jimmy Buffett – Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Elvis Presley – Guadalajara
The Texas Tornados – He is a Tejano
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – Gringo Honeymoon
John Prine – Mexican Home
Ry Cooder – Mexican Divorce
Bob Dylan – Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)

2
Bob Dylan – Goin' to Acapulco
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard – Seashores of Old México
Arlo Guthrie – Manzanillo Bay
Jim Reeves – South of the Border (Down MéxicoWay)
Texas Tornadoes – Mexican Rose
Bob Dylan – Romance in Durango (Desire version)
The Beatles – Sun King
The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard
Nirvana – Mexican Seafood
Walls of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
The Beatles – Polythene Pam
Bob Dylan – Jet Pilot
Bob Dylan – Caribbean Wind
Jimmy Buffett – México
Steely Dan – My Old School
Bob Dylan – Romance in Durango (RTR version)
Mr. Loco – Hombre Religioso
Sir Douglas Quintet – Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Carlos Santana & Willie Nelson – They All Went to México
Texas Tornadoes – South of the Border (Down MéxicoWay)
Jimmy Buffett – Wonder Why Ever Go Home
Texas Tornadoes – Adiós México

The Church of AotMDoowad's Sesquicelebration

2008-07-24T20:40:00.000-07:00

In posting this, I am assuming that most visitors here already know about the website Art of the Mix in some way, shape or form. If not, infórmese de inmediato.

Sammy and I were chatting about his upcoming 100th mix, which landed with such aplomb earlier this summer. He encouraged me to do something similar for my 100th. Well, it turns out my 100th was somewhere in the middle of my redneck series last fall.

So, here I am at my 150th and rather than nick Sammy's idea 100%, I decided to do a one-song tribute to as many mixers as I could legitimately pay tribute to. My reasons were varied: the track selected is a song I know they love, or that I love off one of my favorite mixes of theirs, a style they might enjoy, or a song or artist they led me to, or perhaps one that I may have led them to, common ground we might have with an artist or song, or simply a personal message that hopefully the recipient understands (or at least hopefully I understand).

Sammy's mix helped provide a template in terms of mixers I didn't want to overlook as well as a base sample of their tastes. But I wanted to also pay tribute to long-lost mixers without having to contact them and blindly trust that their email was accurate on AotM.

I have made tributes here and there for different mixers, and had others makes ones for me, but this time I wanted to get as many of you as I could with one fell swoop. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did putting it together. And I hope that nobody feels left out, besides Sammy's list, my guideline was primarily folks who have commented on my own mixes (and my family's mixes) over the years. Not that one or two who have never commented on a doowad or doowad-related mix didn't make the cut, it just seemed proper to honor those most deserving first. And if you happened to be left off here, email me and we'll do a Mutual Appreciation Society mix as payback.

Oh, and regarding sequence, I listed all the songs in Excel first, lumped them in a playlist and then sequenced them doowad-style, averting my eyes from the original list to avoid favoritism. Less scientific than Sammy's, but at least less biased than a Florida election.

Posdata: As a sort-of tribute to RetroJoe and his actuarial statistics, here are some numbers:

The mixers I picked from ranged from jkj to beat-nick, which gave a mean of ladyluck1123.

The sum total of all the mixer IDs was
3168246.

The average mixer was chocoholic123, who for obvious reasons is not included.

Jenergy was the the median mixer..

The biggest leap from one mixer ID number to another was 9841, from hemizen to, appropriately enough, his brother.

¡Muchas gracias por todo a todos!

Disk 1
New York Dolls - Don't Start Me To Talkin'
Funky Ratchet

Fifteen - Rainbow Connection
ash.

Rancid - Hoover Street
les_autres

The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
girlgerms

Soda Stereo - De música ligera
Luke79

Dinosaur Jr. - Blah
beadreamer

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
Moe

Big Brother & the Holding Company - Summertime
Hang The DJ

James Brown - Brand New Funky President
G-Sphere

Molotov - Frijolero
Mixxer

Lila Downs - El Bracero Fracasado
no borders

Rising Sons - Walking Down the Line
Leif Averageson

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Chicken Gravy And Biscuits
Barkis

James Carr - Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
Dom1

Rufus and Chaka Khan - You Got The Love
SteveRaglin

Betty Lavette - Stealer
sport !

Little Charlie & the Nightcats - Thinking with the Wrong Head
Jenergy

The Swallows - It Ain't The Meat
RetroJoe

Sly & The Family Stone - Seventh Son
Orchid

Louis Prima - I Wan'na Be Like You
jonpoi

Tom Lehrer - Silent E
Sean Lally

Jimmy Durante - Ink a Dink a Doo
ratticus redeemed

Edith Piaf - J'Ai Danse Avec L'Amour
The Cuckoo

Amy Winehouse - Amy, Amy, Amy
Sister Zoe Jarvis

The Gordons With Hank Jones Trio - Bebopper
dav13

Disk 2

Duke Ellington - Old Man Blues
Muzag

Miles Davis - Godchild
Captain Hi-Top

Iggy Pop - Tiny Girls
ghandi

Kevn Kinney - Kerouac
Jessica Lynn

Michael Smith - The Ballad of Elizabeth Dark
vandaleyes

Allen Ginsberg with Bob Dylan - Kerouac's Grave [Mexico City Blues Excerpt]
Sal Paradise Was Right

Jimmy Smith - St. Louis Blues
strange loop

The Band - Ophelia
Musowoman

Ry Cooder - Married Man's a Fool
gobi

Kinky Friedman - God Bless John Wayne
SwankQueen

Cracker - Eurotrash Girl
ofthaltned

National Lampoon featuring Christopher Guest - Positively Wall Street
French Connection

Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Lock Your Door/Baby Won't You Be My Baby
abangaku

Sonny Boy Williamson - 99
Wad

Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
short wave radio

Robbie Fulks - Fuck This Town
Randy13

Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry [Bangla Desh]
Darth Pazuzu

Del McCoury and Marty Stuart - Let Us Travel, Travel On
2old2matter

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - I Think Somebody Better Come Back Home
FranklinOnn12

John Prine - Paradise
bufo alvarius

Johnny Cash - Missouri Waltz
MO Twang!

Rose Maddox - Sin City
Johnny Dark

Mississippi John Hurt - Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
Tex Hobart

Neil Young - On The Way Home .
AnnieLawrie

Marie Burns & the Woodshed All-Stars - Willow
Rebel Princess

Disk 3

Alison Moorer - Moonshiner
Pollyanna

Steve Earle - The Kind
Mark Petrucelli

Townes Van Zandt - Lost Highway
Lost Highway

Bob Dylan - Wedding Song
buglady

Little Feat - Willin'
Little Spencer Boys

The Sir Douglas Quintet - It Was In The Pines
XYZ

The Kinks - Animal Farm
Toast

Dos Gringos - Jeremiah Weed
Angry_MOGS

The Watson Twins - Dig a Little Deeper
Mike Eternity

The Byrds - Citizen Kane
Lemon_Currie

Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up
gabechouinard

Randy Newman - God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
avocado rabbit

Rasputina - Christian Soldiers
mahdishain

Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
gpap_gpap

Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo - Today I Sing The Blues
Media Vixen : Radio Sally

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
hemizen

Spiritualized - Cool Waves
ally marone

Emmylou Harris - J'Ai Fait Tout
Krenzel16

Silvio Rodríguez - Canción del elegido
lanhamyodel

Beirut - Guaymas, Sonora
locovinagre

Yann Tiersen - La valse des monstres
Rob_z2.

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! - Tzibeles Bulgar
e.buster

Erkin Koray - Hayat Bir Teselli
Bear

Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
losingsoul

H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness
lo-fi jr.

Disk 4

Jets to Brazil - Lemon Yellow Black
dnatimebomb

Billy Bond y la Pesada - Buen día Señor Presidente
Dead Man

The Beatles - It's All Too Much
ladakale

Ornette Coleman - Little Symphony
happykatakuri

XTC - River Of Orchids
destroyalltacos

Control Machete - Amnesia
Skipper Bartlett

Julieta Venegas - De mis pasos
astarinel

Jorge Drexler - Milonga Del Moro Judio
Barrydali

Caetano Veloso & Os Mutantes - É Proibido Proibir
deja_vu_all_over_again

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds
Tfranklin

The Raveonettes - With My Eyes Closed
dynamine

Bersuit Vergarabat - La Venganza De Los Muertos Pobres
njr

Spacemen 3 - Come Down Softly To My Soul
infinity_girl

Fabulosos Cadillacs - Calaveras y diablitos
blasikin

Nickel Creek - Can't Complain
FoolThemAll

John Mayer - I Don't Trust Myself
Liquidmoon1

Paul Westerberg - You're Getting Married
Rob Conroy

Regina Spektor - Samson
_celestia

Sun Kil Moon - Blue Orchids
Nomates

Owl And The Pussycat - Give Me The Morning
sweetxhoneyxbee

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
anthony lombardi

Beth Orton - I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
kwan_dk

Mecano - Me cuesta tanto olvidarte
ika

Charlie Chaplin - Oh! That Cello
mr.pretzel

The Philip Koutev National Folk Ensemble - Dumai, Zlato
Salman1

Disk 5

Los Ases - La noche de anoche
tornadoZ

Herbie Hancock with Joni Mitchell - The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)
g.a.b. l@bs

Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
sbessg

La Buena Vida - Un Actor Mejicano
jaime b

Pink Floyd vs The Orb - Pigs On The Wing (part 2 - trance remix)
Mr. Mirage

Aarktica - Aura Lee
arktical

Mark Ronson with Phantom Planet - Just
AlmostFamous

Pedro the Lion - Bad Diary Days
Executive Slacks

Soul Coughing - St. Louise Is Listening
Air Raid

Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
JamesPhoenix

Blur - Essex Dogs
Essex Dog

Chuck Prophet - It Won't Be Long
Nest of Vipers

Goran Bregovic with Iggy Pop - In The Deathcar
musicgnome

Portishead - Silence
indiesoc

Marvelous 3 - Pizza and Wine
aidanjayewalker

Dinah Washington - Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby? (Remix)
DJ Karen Adams

Dusty Springfield with the Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
beat-nick

Azul Violeta - Renacer
Thomas_Mohr

Joaquín Sabina y Fito Páez - Llueve sobre mojado
deejzilla

Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Mesh

Shout Out Louds - South America
>toxotronic<

Trini López - Lemon Tree
artvandelay

Lyda Zamora - La chica ye - yé
KathrynandRupert

The King's Singers - Good Vibrations
Ken Harris

Lindsey Buckingham - DW Suite
Lipstick Vogue

Disk 6

The Beatles - You Won't See Me
Curtis Burns

Gigolo Aunts - Only You
your name here

Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
sammyg123

Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking
super relax

Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
lastyearsgirl_

The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out
p the swede

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Siobhan

The Zombies - Friends of Mine
MarkSmith

Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers - Echoes
fontilan

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Tranzmotion

Love & Rockets - Holiday On The Moon
Dead Heaven

The Ting Tings - Great DJ
Doowadette

Mano Negra - Super Chango
musikitty

Lambchop - King of Nothing Never
Joe Gillis1

The Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old
a-lex12

Apples in Stereo - Energy
Pop Kulcher

Paramore - For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic
natalyesaurus

The Afghan Whigs - John the Baptist
cassiopea

The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket
The Misfit

Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg - Let's Do It
senatorhung

Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks
jball1954

Ben Folds Five - Your Redneck Past
TheKeenGuy (Patrick C. Taylor)

Botellita de Jerez - Guacarock
joey de vivre

Three Souls In My Mind - Que viva el rock n' roll
valis

Chingón - El Rey De Los Chingones
jkj