Artist	Song
Harry Nilsson's "The Point"	Are You Sleeping?
The Clumsy Lovers	Cock of the North
Norah Jones	Sunrise
Harry Nilsson's "The Point"	Everthing's Got 'Em
Harry Nilsson's "The Point"	The Town (Narration)
John Lennon	Working Class Hero
The Greencards	Lonesome Side Of Town
Old Crow Medicine Show	My Good Gal
The Wreckers	Stand Still, Look Pretty
Joan Osborne	Pretty Little Things
Nickel Creek	The Lighthouse's Tale
The Greencards	Weather and Water
KT Tunstall	Under The Weather
Norah Jones and Dolly Parton	Creepin' In
Old Crow Medicine Show	James River Blues
Nickel Creek	Anthony
John Wesley Harding	The Person You Are
Nickel Creek	When You Come Back Down
Shawn Colvin	84,000 Different Delusions
Ben Folds	Red Is Blue

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This 2 CD Mix set has multiple themes interwoven to tell a story. Part one begins the day and part two brings it to a close.
My mother told me that she had an art teacher when she was in school who put down her drawings, putting a stopper in her creativity and as a result she never thought she had artistic talent just like the boy in Harry Chapin's song, "Red Flowers", the first song on Part 2. I put together this mix for two reasons, (1) I wanted to make a mix that tells the story of overcoming the negative influences in our lives and (2) to do so using mostly Folk, Country, and Bluegrass songs. Since Bluegrass fits the art theme, I also wanted to incorporate songs about stormy weather to represent the green skies of the title and the troubled times we must overcome. Part one focuses mostly on negative influences, conditioning, and conforming to fit in with the norm including songs and narration from Nilsson's "The Point" and John Lennon's "Working Class Hero".
Part two focuses on standing up for your sense of individuality using positive influences and breaking away from what's expected.

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