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Baby, Show Me The Way

Artist Song
Wanda Jackson  Rock Your Baby  
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn  You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly 
Nanci Griffith & Darius Rucker  The Gravity of the Situation 
John Lennon & Yoko Ono  Beautiful Boy 
Silver Jews  I'm Gonna Love The Hell Out Of You 
Whiskeytown  A Song For You 
Alison Krauss with Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch  Go To Sleep Little Baby 
Rufus Wainwright  Beautiful Child 
Gram Parsons  Kiss The Children 
Tim Hardin  Baby Close Its Eyes 
Emmylou Harris  My Baby Needs A Shepherd 
Bread  Daughter 
The National  Son 
Ryan Adams  She Wants To Play Hearts 
Loudon Wainwright III  Be Careful There's A Baby in the House 
The Palace Brothers  I Had A Good Mother and Father 

Comment:

This mix has absolutely nothing to do with Peter Frampton or Sarah Palin. What it is about is having a baby, inspired when my son called me one night to say his girlfrie nd had "a bun in the oven." Not all the songs are obvious references to newborns or giving birth or fatherhood. A couple get into the process of making a baby, perhaps unconsciously. And there are ideas about getting one's act together in anticipation of becoming a parent.
I should mention that my son and his girlfrie nd did indeed "make it official," and are now the parents of a 10-month old daughter. All are doing fine. I hope little Anna likes alt-country like her grandfather.
The Quiz: Which of the singers in the mix once had a fling with Elvis Presley? A copy of the mix, tracked and with artwork awaits the first correct answer.
*** To successfully download the mix you'll have to remove the underscore in the file name between the letters "r" and "o." This is a new file-sharing service I found that is very easy to use, but I didn't figure on there being an aotm bad word conflict in the name.

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Feedback:

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natalyesaurus
Date: 11/7/2008
wanda jacksonnnn - also, a grandfather! dang, no i feel even younger, haha. this mix is a very nice sentiment.
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doowad
Date: 11/7/2008
Very nice, I used to sing my own version of Beautiful "girl" to doowadette when she was just a wee one. The whole mix is stellar, really, congratulations.
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njr
Date: 11/7/2008
Congratulations! What a worthy reason to make a mix! And what a mix it is.

Wanda Jackson and Elvis Presley? Seriously?!? Does that mean he got his idea of glitzy costumes from her?

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G-Sphere
Date: 11/7/2008
Sounds great. Congrats.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 11/7/2008
natalyesaurus has the winning answer. Pretty good for a young woman.
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Rebel Princess
Date: 11/8/2008
So it's Grandpa Rabbit now, huh? Congratulations! Mix looks great, I'm sure little Anna will appreciate it when she's old enough to, you know, appretiate other things than eating, sleeping and chewing on things.
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Mixxer
Date: 11/8/2008
Beautiful! Track 2 is a marriage classic.
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gabechouinard
Date: 11/8/2008
Very sweet, like something I'd make for my own daughters. Cheers!
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French Connection
Date: 11/8/2008
Nice one pappy lapin.
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Funky Ratchet
Date: 11/9/2008
My marriage started in much the same way. This is one great mix...and a belated congrats, gramps!
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sammyg123
Date: 11/9/2008
Track 2 -one of the best song titles ever. Looks like a fine mix, Dean.
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p the swede
Date: 11/11/2008
mm yummy
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Salman1
Date: 11/18/2008
Love track 2 and 15 a lot.