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Mixed Genre
10/19/2004
This is the first mix where I broke my own rule and used two songs from the same artist. Go figure.
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Mixed Genre
7/21/2004
I can't stop listening to this. When I drive, when I write, when I sleep.
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Mixed Genre
10/5/2003
I made this the weekend that Johnny Cash died. The title refers to the cover art - a picture of basketball player Chauncey Billups (don't ask). Most of the songs were either old favorites I hadn't list …
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Theme
8/1/2003
I call this a themed CD because I made it right after I got home from visiting Boston, where I used to live before I moved back to Delaware. My head was in a muddle over a lot of different things, whic …
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Mixed Genre
8/1/2003
This mix was born because a friend of mine told me about the BDB cover of "Thunder Road" and how hard it was to get the .mp3 of it. I asked around, got a copy, and then built a whole CD around it. It's …
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Theme - Narrative
7/11/2003
When I was writing my novel, BRINGING UP THE BONES (Delacorte 2002), I often used music to affect my moods. There's a scene in the book where Bridget, the protagonist, plays Tori Amos's "China" over an …
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Mixed Genre
12/14/2002
This is the first mix I'd made specifically for Chris since "Cross-Eyed Soul" - in between I'd finished up my master's degree and written two novels - and it was for his 27th birthday. He made a commen …
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Theme - Depression
12/14/2002
I made this for my friend Andrew in the fall of 2000, a few months after he moved to London. I think I was having a really hard time adjusting to him living several time zones away. Very cathartic mix.
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Theme
12/14/2002
I've always thought that "The Boy with the Arab Strap" is the best CD-starter, but I never got around to using it. So that's how this mix started. There's a line from the song that goes, "Do you ever f …
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