Artist	Song
Big Star	The Ballad of El Goodo
R.E.M.	Man on the Moon
Grateful Dead	Ripple
Amy Rigby	Don't Ever Change
Roxy Music	More Than This
Elliott Smith	Ballad of Big Nothing
Beach Boys	God Only Knows
The Shins	New Slang
Aimee Mann	Save Me
Fountains of Wayne	No Better Place
Simon & Garfunkel	The Only Living Boy in New York
The Jayhawks	Smile
Yo La Tengo	Little Eyes
Phish	Waste
Judee Sill	The Vigilante
Wilco	Jesus etc.
Ben Folds	Landed
The Connells	'74-'75
Death Cab For Cutie	Soul Meets Body
Barbara Manning	Talk All Night

Comment:

I recently learned that a good friend is very ill. We've known each other since high school, going back some 25 years. We're in different cities now -- she's up in Portland, I'm down in San Francisco -- and I'm feeling like there's not much I can do to help, other than try to send her some music to play while she's laid up. The challenge being that she's always been mostly an Elton John-Billy Joel kind of gal, and those aren't exactly mainstays of my collection. So I had to kind of look for mainstream-ish, mellow tunes, while trying to steer clear of the overly maudlin. The last thing I wanted was something that felt like the "Music For Chemo" mix. Not sure if this walked the line well enough or not.

Postscript: Had to replace the artwork. I thought the lighthouse photo was quite pretty, until I thought about it a bit and got to wondering why there'd be a lighthouse in Portland. Unless, of course,the photo was from Portland, Maine. D-oh!

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