1. Michelle Branch - One of These Days
2. BR5-49 - Hickory Wind Graham Parsons wrote this one. If you listen to Parsons / Byrds version, BR5-49 comes pretty close. Everyone seems to like to do this one. Keith Richards does one. A couple of hicks I don't know sort of pull it off. Gillian Welch makes it sound more mournful than most. And Jay Farrar (of Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo) does one, too. I think I'll sing it in the shower tomorrow.
   
3. America - Ventura Highway (03:22)
4. Bap Kennedy - I've Fallen In Love (03:21)
5. Pat McGee Band - Come Back Home (04:08)
6. Shane Nicholson - Life On Mars (04:19)
7. Kim Richey - So It Goes (03:34)

Powerpoint Mix Tape

1. Citizen Cope - Healing Hands (05:28)
2. BR5-49 - Hickory Wind (04:15)
3. Nickel Creek - When You Come Back Down (03:49)
4. Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach - Toledo (04:36)
5. Shane Nicholson - Life On Mars (04:19)
6. Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus (03:41)
7. Crowded House - Four Seasons In One Day (02:54)
8. Derailers - You Don't Have To Go (03:35)
9. T.V. Carpio - I Want To Hold Your Hand (02:45)
10. Paloma Faith - New York (03:39)
11. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (04:21)

Sept 24. 2010 - Offsite Agenda Creation Mixed Tape

Creating an agenda for an offsite I'm facilitating next week. The participants of the offsite all agree that the off-site is necessary, but can't agree on the objectives or the agenda. We'll see how the first hour (of six) goes! Need a mellow, consistent focus, thus this Mixed Tape:

1. Court Yard Hounds - See You In the Spring. A duet with Jacob Dylan. Solid.
   
2. Blue Rodeo - And When You Wake Up. Blue Rodeo is my goto for mellow maudlin moods. This is from their new CD.
   
3. The Wailin' Jennys - Arlington. Live. Flawless three-part harmony. Not bad for two Canadians and one American.
   
4. The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved. I prefer the version from Live From Abbey Road
   
5. The Outfield - Your Love. Stripped. Unplugged. Acoustic. Better than the original.
   
6. The Coconutz - Everybody Hurts. A Hawaiian cover of the REM tune from the Forgetting Sarah Marshall sound track. Don't like Hawaiian music? Get over it.
   
7. Toots & The Maytals - Careless Ethiopians. And Keith Richards? Yes. The mix on this tune sound awesome in my A4 wagon (estate car).
   
8. Michael Stipe - In The Sun (ft. Joseph Arthur - Free Acoustic Couch Rehearsal). Six versions on the album, and today I like this one the best. First saw it on Austin City Limits, featuring Coldplay.
9. Dixie Chicks - Landslide. Yes, a Fleetwood Mac cover. We like the Dixie Chicks in my house. My daughters have been serenading me with Dixie Chicks tunes since they were 4 and 2 years old. If my daughters ever speak their and mind and piss off the country music establishment (is that like the East Coast, Liberal Press, Elite Educational Establishment?) I'd be proud of them.
   
10. Deer Tick - Smith Hill. "Who's this," I asked the hipster at Barnes and Noble. "Deer Tick," he said. Oh. I tracked them down, and they're not bad. Though on stage they look like homeless hipsters with talent.
    
11. Cracker - Another Song About The Rain. If I ever want to cement a mellow mood and feel good about being introverted, quiet and moderately grumpy, this is the song I turn to. Always.
    
12. The Game of Love - Santana w/Michelle Branch. Raise your hand if you like Michelle Branch. I do. She's good. She's even better with the short-lived, now-defunct Wreckers.
13. The Way Back Home - The Wreckers.

The Rainy Paris The Mellow Mix

Take Me Down to the Infirmary Cracker - Kerosene Hat
Another Song About the Rain - Cracker - Cracker