Acoustic 5: Palebluesaltwaterbreathing

Artist Song
Rufus Wainwright  Complainte de la Butte ("Moulin Rouge" Original Soundtrack, 2001) 
The Stanley Brothers  Angel Band (Music From The Motion Picture "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", 2001) 
Magnetic Fields  Sad Little Moon (Holiday, 1993) 
April March  Martine (Chrominance Decoder, 1998) 
Mike Peters  The Deceiver (Acoustic Works 1981 - 1986, 1997) 
Manic Street Preachers  Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel (Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers, 2003) 
The Beatles  Eleanor Rigby (Revolver, 1966) 
Jeff Buckley  Bluebird Blues (Live at CMJ New Music Festival, 1991) 
The Flying Burrito Brothers  To Ramona (The Flying Burrito Brothers,, 1971) 
Tim Burgess  Po' Boy Soul (I Believe, 2003) 
Mull Historical Society  Her Is You (Us, 2003) 
Grandaddy  Jed The Humanoid (The Sophtware Slump, 2000) 
Gravenhurst  The Diver (Flashlight Seasons, 2004) 
Eskobar  Cold Night (A Thousand Last Chances, 2004) 
Billy Bragg & Wilco  Eisler On The Go (Mermaid Avenue, 1998) 
Mogwai  O I Sleep (Rock Action, 2001) 
Leftfield  21st Century Poem (Leftism, 1995) 
Radiohead  I Will. (No Man's Land.) (Hail To The Thief, 2003) 
Sparklehorse  Saint Mary (Good Morning Spider, 1998) 
Robert Johnson  Travelling Riverside Blues (King Of The Delta Blues Singers, 1999) 
The La's  All By Myself (The La's, 1990) 
Willard Grant Conspiracy  I Still Miss Someone (MOJO: Cash Covered[ compilation], 2004) 
The Watersons  Three Pretty Maidens (Green Fields, 1981) 
Graham Coxon  Ribbons And Leaves (Happiness In Magazines, 2004) 

Comment:

Another in the series of acoustic mixes - those guitar strummers just keep appearing out of nowhere. Many thanks to alma cogan for the Watersons track!
The title is from the Gravenhurst track and it inspired the cover art: the picture shows Saltair in Utah, a holiday resort on the Great Salt Lake which was built as a Western equivalent to Coney Island. It opened in 1893 and was highly popular for wholesome, seaside-resort-style family entertainment until around 1930, but the number of visitors then declined until the pavilion and surrounding attractions were forced to close in the 1950s. There have been a lot of attempts to revive it, despite fire damage and a general lack of public interest, and these have been partly successful: the place is now sometimes used as a concert venue.The Great Salt Lake is certainly worth a visit if you ever happen to be in that neck of the woods (I used to live in Salt Lake City so have visited a few times) but the most recent renovations of Saltair could never really compete with the original building, and the remnants of other parts of the resort are quite eerie in the way that only disused carnival sites can be...plus, the whole place reeks of sulphur.
image for mix

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g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 7/5/2006
Very nice (the title alone was worth the click, Siobhan).
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Mesh
Date: 7/5/2006
Where to begin... beautiful mix. Billy Bragg & Wilco, Radiohead, Robert Johnson, Jeff Buckley, ... Really, Really, well done.
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sammyg123
Date: 7/5/2006
Gorgeous mix Siobhan. Too many great tracks to mention. I agree with g.a.b, a fine title. And, the picture is Saltair in Utah and NOT Central Pier, Blackpool?
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French Connection
Date: 7/5/2006
Thats a better pic than Saltair - Bingley UK. Love this mix Siobhan cept for track #18 they leave me palebluesaltwaterdrowning!
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Rob Conroy
Date: 7/5/2006
This looks gorgeous. As others said, too many great tracks to name. Count me in for this one (I love your acoustic mixes)...
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McDonald12
Date: 7/5/2006
a wonderful mix, Siobhan. Hope to trade with you soon.
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Moe
Date: 7/5/2006
Nice. There's nothing quite like the sound of a gently strummed acoustic guitar. Especially like the LA's, April March and the Beatles (though I'm unfamiliar with that song. Was it a b-side?). Have you heard any of the new Rose Melberg CD? It has some beautiful acoustic-guitar based songs.
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Barrydali
Date: 7/5/2006
F**k me pink this is stunning. Love almost every track. And I second Moe's shout for Rose Melberg, its a lovely record as is aussie act Tamas Wells ' new album which I recently stumbled upon.
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Mixxer
Date: 7/5/2006
You even have la formidable April March - wonderful mix.
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sport !
Date: 7/5/2006
This looks great! I would love to hear this soon as well...
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alma cogan
Date: 7/6/2006
Glad you're making use of the Apocalypse mix. This looks like a first-rate acoustathon.
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valis
Date: 7/6/2006
Beautiful. Tres...
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 7/6/2006
Wow! the front three are stunning and there are so many hojghlights throughout. Great backstory too.
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bufo alvarius
Date: 7/7/2006
Whoah...almost missed this one. Of course, this is really, really lovely. Only know about half of this one, but I dig the vibe of the whole thing. You are one of the BEST at these types of mixes, for sure.
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zeke
Date: 7/7/2006
dude. awesome.
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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 7/8/2006
Really nice. Especially the Stanley Brothers, Mull HS, and Bragg/Wilco.
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ihatemixing
Date: 7/9/2006
This looks wonderful.
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Orchid
Date: 7/10/2006
Lovely. (I feel like I say that on all of your mixes, but it's always the first word that comes to mind). I really enjoy your acoustic mixes (or at least the look of them!) And I'm very intrigued by Saltair... it looks a little eerie, but maybe that's cos the picture is in black & white.
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Salman1
Date: 7/10/2006
I'm digging the vibe of this mix. Seems like a perfect mix to listen to in the fall...
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gobi
Date: 7/12/2006
Good stuff! Graham Coxon is on a roll at the moment, isn't he? . . . . . and we played that Billy Bragg and Wilco album to death when it came out - time for a relisten methinks
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p the swede
Date: 7/14/2006
do you wanna buy the new eskobar, signed too of mee ;)

like this mix ssklart
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 7/20/2006
Nicely done. This would've been my pick for mix of the week!
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deja_vu_all_over_again
Date: 8/12/2006
Damn - missed this one. Shame - I'm with orchid - looks lovely