Side A
Artist	Song
Celeste Holm	I Cain't Say No
Delbert McClinton	One of the Fortunate Few
Dr. John	Dis, Dat or D'udda
Graham Parker	Anything For A Laugh
John Hiatt	Woman Sawed In Half
Patsy Cline	I Fall To Pieces
The Flying Burrito Brothers	Together Again
Lauryn Hill with D'Angelo	Nothing Even Matters
Ray Charles	Yes, Indeed!
Lucky Peterson	Remember The Day
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King	Ask Me No Questions
Randy Newman	Big Hat No Cattle
Doug Sahm	Get A Life
Spearhead	Yes, I Will
O.V. Wright	I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled or Crazy
Buddy Miller	Worry Too Much
Mary Weiss	Stop and Think It Over
The Raconteurs	Steady As She Goes
John Hartford	I Won't Know Why I Went Till After I Get Back
Jason Boland & The Stragglers	If I Ever Get Back To Oklahoma
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Meredith Brooks	It Don't Get Better
Fiona Apple	Oh, Well
Willy Porter	Angry Words
Richard Thompson	Keep Your Distance
Kathleen Edwards	Back To Me
Emmylou Harris	Where Will I Be
Greg Brown	Cold + Dark + Wet
James McMurtry	Poor Lost Soul
Railroad Earth	Hard Livin'
Joe Ely	Honky Tonkin' [live]
ZZ Top	Pincushion
Frank Zappa	Stick It Out
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	Androgynous
Lou Reed	Satellite of Love
Missy Elliot featuring Ginuwine	Friendly Skies
Astrud Gilberto	Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
Train	Drops of Jupiter
David Bowie	Space Oddity
Willie Nelson	There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone

Comment:

The mix you have here is a collaboration between Doowad and Avocado Rabbit, swapping songs back and forth between St. Louis and Knoxville (Tennessee) as if these two guys were sitting on the back porch remembering tunes that they liked. Ain't the Internet grand!

They've titled this mix "The Conversation," which was also the title of one of Francis Ford Coppola's lesser known films. It starred Gene Hackman as a nerdy master eavesdropper. Coppola made it after "The Godfather" had propelled him to super-director status, but this was a personal film he had wanted to make for some time, and for which he wrote the screenplay. He has said it was something of an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 arty "Blowup," with its themes of privacy and its invasion creating a psychological thriller. This film is a crisp illustration of the old saying about judging books by covers. You think you know what is going on, but, like our reclusive anti -hero - Harry Caul - you slowly begin to doubt the evidence of your own eyes and ears. Finally, it dawns on you that you have completely misjudged the situation, the participants---and maybe, just a bit, your own reason.

That was Avocado Rabbit's approach to the alt-dj process. It was a little uncomfortable at first, having another person become part of the building of a mix. He figured he would either love it or hate but there was no way he could be neutral. And Rabbit did, in fact, love it, loved the surprise of not knowing what song would come next and being able to think afterwards "Oh, yeah, that fits."

The veteran half of the combo, Doowad, states he's just a mixer who cain't say no to an alt-dj. "This particular collaboration really went smoothly, so much so that we were basically just conversing back and forth with song titles and/or sentiment."

Francis de la Rochefoucauld neatly sums up what our intrepid pair of mixers were feeling: "To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."

Quiz: Want to win a copy of this mix, track marked and with artwork? Just be the first to answer the following question. Which of the musicians listed above is a part of the Allison Krauss/Robert Plant touring band?

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