Artist	Song
gillian welch	everything is free
karla shickele	hip flask
bob dylan	girl from the north country
dave brubeck	40 days
nick drake	place to be
ian manire	simplicity
the softies	the best days
kings of convenience	winning a battle, losing the war
simon & garfunkel	kathy's song
elvis costello	baby plays around
low & dirty three	down by the river
cat power	wild is the wind
mark kozelek	around & around
john lennon	oh my love
bill evans trio	jade visions
low	sunshine
archer prewitt	last summer days
sam phillips	how to dream
nina simone	don't explain
elliott smith	i didn't understand
keith jarrett	i'm through with love
steve & ian manire	autumnal

Comment:

this mix was made last october for the same girl as the "after dirty dancing" mix i posted recently (and the same girl for whom at least half my mixes are made, honestly). october was a couple months after a very difficult and rather cruel breakup, and this mix was only a very thinly veiled communique of the pain i'd been put through tempered with musical reminders of what was lost. fucking pathetic or further evidence of the expressive power of pop music and careful mixing. the string of "don't explain," "i didn't understand" and "i'm through with love" was probably a little too barbed-- but the saving grace is, it's all very pleasant, listenable down-mood music if you just ignore the words. . . *i

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