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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