Dusty Shoebox Playlist

Going through old shoeboxes tucked away in the furthest corner regions of my closet ..... shoeboxes full of cassette tapes, both commercially made tapes and assorted mixtapes from years long past. If the mixtapes were once made with a specific person in mind, the recipient and intention has been forgotten.   

There was a time when these received frequent listens around my place. Though it's been a while for most. It's enjoyable getting reacquainted.

• Counting Crows - A Long December
• Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life
• Duncan Shiek - Barely Breathing
• Indigo Girls - Power of Two
• Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene ..... I can't imagine a radio station DJ following 'Power of Two' with this, unless it was me.
• Tom Waits - Better Off Without a Wife .... My college roommates introduced me to this in 1978. (I can't mention 'college' without saying: Go Beavs!! (Oregon State University)
• Duncan Shiek - Wishful Thinking .... Never hear of his music anymore but he was getting much recognition back in the 1990's. 
• Jackson Browne - The Barricades of Heaven / I'm Alive
• Peter Himmelman - Closer ..... Sending a message.
• Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
• Little Feat - Under the Radar ..... "My heart is a mountain, I'd walk on fire to get to you."
• John Hiatt - Cry Love ..... I love the mandolin.
• John Hiatt - Shredding the Documents

Drone On

I get to celebrate the 'Black Friday' version of 'Record Store Day' tomorrow. 

If I choose to that is.

Don't have to work so I'm semi-excited about the chance to attend on the same day.

Not that I'm planning to be standing in line at 8:00am when the doors open.

I've never been the stand-in-line type personality.

But I'll swoop in after the crowds have died down and pick from what remains. 

That works for me. 

On the turntable today .....

7-inch vinyl from 1991.

Found in the punk section of the record store. Picked up a week ago. I laughed at punk when it exploded in the late 1970's. Beginning to appreciate it in my senior years. In small doses that is. I can't sit and listen to it for long periods. Hence, I have a small but growing collection of 7-inch punk records. Seems like the perfect format for the genre.

Sam's Place

I had no idea. A total surprise to discover a new Little Feat album. Released this year on their Hot Tomato record label.

I've been a huge fan since their late 1980's reformation. 

This one with all lead vocals by their percussionist and occasional (until now) lead vocalist, Sam Clayton. There's also a duet with Bonnie Raitt. Great blues sounds. 

Little Feat always reminds me of my old friend Mitch. (R.I.P.). He was a huge fan of their 1970's music and the vocals of Lowell George. He would refuse, despite all my efforts and offers to make mix-tapes and cd's, to listen to anything the band recorded after Lowell George's passing in the late 1970's which is about the time that I began paying attention to their sounds through a Jackson Browne bootleg album containing the song, "Long Distance Love."