Artist	Song
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins	Run Devil Run
The National	Daughters of the Soho Riots
Sufjan Stevens	Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Horse Feathers	Hardwood Pews
Bright Eyes	I Must Belong Somewhere
Calexico	Bisbee Blue
Modest Mouse	3rd Planet
Andrew Bird	Plasticities
Iron & Wine	Sodom, South Georgia
Mirah	Mt. St. Helens
Bjork	Boho Dance
Kathleen Edwards	Somewhere Else
Nada Surf	Neither Heaven Nor Space
Boxharp	Church in Calhoun
Cry Cry Cry	The Kid
Wilco	Airline to Heaven (Live)
The Mountain Goats	Against Pollution
Neko Case	At Last

Comment:

Subtitled, removed for giving away the punchline: "songs about places, songs about faith." A mix made as a combination "birthday/welcome to town/glad to have met you" gift. Of course, the track-listing somehow reflects none of these sentiments.

The recipient is a fascinating person I don't know well yet -- raised a devout Mormon, realized in her mid-twenties that she was gay, and worked closely the church to come to terms with it right up until she finally left the faith. Clearly, these things were on my mind when I sat down to come up with the tracklist, as was the fact that I don't know her musical tastes and wanted to assemble something she'd enjoy listening to. I think that this is the more nuanced successor to three of my previous theme mixes: fingers stab the map like hope, the village atheist, and we are all dying of consumption (the city sins). It's also the softest mix I've made in a long time.

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