Artist	Song
Dan Bern	Live Another Day
Robert Deeble	Jack's Diary
Calexico w/ Iron and Wine	Prison on Route 41
Michael Penn	Walter Reed
Fur Dixon and Steve Werner	Where are we Going?
Richard Buckner	Blue and Wonder
Dead Hot Workshop	Midwestern Arms (acoustic)
Fembots	Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Fruitbats	The Wind that Blew My Heart Away
The New Amsterdams	Asleep at the Wheel
Cat Stevens	Don't Be Shy
Sufjan Stevens	He Woke Me Up Again
Greater California	May Day
Rian Murphy & Will Oldham	Fall Again
Mike Doughty	Your Misfortune
Semisonic	Closing Time (basement acoustic demo)
Vusi Mahlasela	Sleep Tight Margaret
Frank Black	Atom in My Heart
The Weakerthans	A New Name for Everything
Arlo Guthrie	Last Train
Lizzie West	Holy Road
The Mountain Goats	This Year

Comment:

I mixed this on August 31, 2006 for my friend Molly. I originally intended to make this primarily a folk mix, but somewhere along the line I dropped most of the folk and replaced it with alt-country, acoustic rock/pop and straight-up guitar-driven indie-rock. Still, I really like the direction it took.This mix starts out very slow and meanders through a series of depressing songs about "life gone wrong" before taking an upturn around track 11. Track 12 is the "pivot song" where everything turns, and the rest of the mix, while occasionally slow, is ultimately elevated by its triumphant and celebratory tone. It goes out on a hopeful note.The cover and inside artwork was hand-drawn based on a photo I took of a North Hollywood traffic signal and a picture an ex-girlfriend took of me on a rock summit in Utah. The title of the mix is from This Year by The Mountain Goats. I burned 5 copies of the mix total.

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