Yesterday...
Was quite nice...
I cleaned out my home-office, in preparation for suddenly being unemployed and needing to use it more. And in cleaning it, I unearthed all my glitter-glue and old American Heritage Magazines, cassette tapes and hats I never wear, to-do lists I never "did". Then I got distracted, as it is so easy to do, by glitter glue.
See, I drive an old Volvo wagon named Fridgie, with no CD player, and I've never had many tapes to listen to. Yesterday morning I found myslef in tears listening to an old Greg Brown tape (mix) that Dave O gave me for my birthday years ago. was weeping and singing along, feeling homesick.
But between the empty casssettes I found and the all-inspiring glitter glue, I decided it was time to pull myself back to 1992 and make a mix tape!!! Which turned into several mix tapes. Which I spent the evening collaging and glittering. Best time I've had in weeks!
The tape I made for myself has a glittery Brooklyn Bridge on it and is as follows (gift tapes are not quite done, and ungiven as of yet).
Side A
Rugged Roses (Gourds)
Showgirl (Grey Delisle)
Don't Bury Me (Porter hall, TN)
Hungover Together (Supersuckers)
A Long Time (Gloria Deluxe)
Grievous Angel (Lucinda Williams)
Soul Sister (Blue Mountain)
Long Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
Thunder Road (If you don't know I'm not going to tell you, you freak!!!)
If you Knew (Neko Case)
W. Texas Heaven (Kimmie Rhodes)
Give Back the Keys 2 My Heart (Uncle Tupelo)
Side B
Middle TN (Porter Hall, TN)
Twas her Hunger (Grey Delisle)
Ghost in the yard (John Dee Graham)
Little Piece of Grace (Gloria Deluxe)
Highway 3 West (Tom Jessen)
Tear Stained Eye (Sun Volt)
A Little Rain (Tom Waits)
It is Not a Question (Gloria Deluxe)
Country Boy (Gloria Deluxe)
Forget the Flowers (Wilco)
You're Still Standing tThere (Lucinda W. and Steve Earle)
In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine and Iris Diment)
Sonora's Death Row (Robert Earl Keen)
It's a very good tape, but it makes me a little sad, becasue it makes me realize that A) I don't listen often to much new music (which is weird since I review music) and B) I have not fallen in love with a single local act since I arrived in Atlanta. This is the south! Where are the amazing bluegrass and country acts? Where are the raging juke joints?
I cleaned out my home-office, in preparation for suddenly being unemployed and needing to use it more. And in cleaning it, I unearthed all my glitter-glue and old American Heritage Magazines, cassette tapes and hats I never wear, to-do lists I never "did". Then I got distracted, as it is so easy to do, by glitter glue.
See, I drive an old Volvo wagon named Fridgie, with no CD player, and I've never had many tapes to listen to. Yesterday morning I found myslef in tears listening to an old Greg Brown tape (mix) that Dave O gave me for my birthday years ago. was weeping and singing along, feeling homesick.
But between the empty casssettes I found and the all-inspiring glitter glue, I decided it was time to pull myself back to 1992 and make a mix tape!!! Which turned into several mix tapes. Which I spent the evening collaging and glittering. Best time I've had in weeks!
The tape I made for myself has a glittery Brooklyn Bridge on it and is as follows (gift tapes are not quite done, and ungiven as of yet).
Side A
Rugged Roses (Gourds)
Showgirl (Grey Delisle)
Don't Bury Me (Porter hall, TN)
Hungover Together (Supersuckers)
A Long Time (Gloria Deluxe)
Grievous Angel (Lucinda Williams)
Soul Sister (Blue Mountain)
Long Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
Thunder Road (If you don't know I'm not going to tell you, you freak!!!)
If you Knew (Neko Case)
W. Texas Heaven (Kimmie Rhodes)
Give Back the Keys 2 My Heart (Uncle Tupelo)
Side B
Middle TN (Porter Hall, TN)
Twas her Hunger (Grey Delisle)
Ghost in the yard (John Dee Graham)
Little Piece of Grace (Gloria Deluxe)
Highway 3 West (Tom Jessen)
Tear Stained Eye (Sun Volt)
A Little Rain (Tom Waits)
It is Not a Question (Gloria Deluxe)
Country Boy (Gloria Deluxe)
Forget the Flowers (Wilco)
You're Still Standing tThere (Lucinda W. and Steve Earle)
In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine and Iris Diment)
Sonora's Death Row (Robert Earl Keen)
It's a very good tape, but it makes me a little sad, becasue it makes me realize that A) I don't listen often to much new music (which is weird since I review music) and B) I have not fallen in love with a single local act since I arrived in Atlanta. This is the south! Where are the amazing bluegrass and country acts? Where are the raging juke joints?
5 Comments:
It IS a very good tape. A side-note involving Thunder Road: I played Thunder Road, Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road for my students last week and we talked about, ya know, basic American rock-and-roll symbolism. I was getting choked up listening to that song and staring out at the smog through my classroom window. But you know what? Most of my students dug Thunder Road MOST! I was stoked. They did not know of Springsteen or Dylan; they do know of the Carpenters. I don't know. I just don't know. There is no rhyme or reason to many bits of this global age.
It is a terrible sin to second guess someone else's mix tape-song selection, especially one so considered...but I will say this:
Since you have 'Anodyne' on hand, next time you get around to making another one, rep Chattanooga with the track, 'Chickamauga'. We miss you. -b
If you get a chance to go hear Michelle Malone, check her out -- she is an amazing ATL singer/songwriter with just the most kick-ass voice. Sort of a rock/country/folk thing. You might like her!
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the ever-underappreciated Grey DeLisle. Not sure why...
cool tape. If you ever come to Nashville we'll have to hit some of the bars on Lower Broad. Too bad the tornado took out half of them....
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