Artist	Song
nick drake	time has told me
r.e.m.	country feedback
elliott smith	pitseleh
smog	to be of use
david sylvian	the boy with the gun
sparklehorse	the most beautiful widow in town
scott walker	plastic palace people
tom waits	get behind the mule
wilco	she's a jar
ryan adams	winding wheel
afghan whigs	when we two parted
the beta band	she's the one
nick cave and the bad seeds	i let love in
mark eitzel	cleopatra jones
the delgados	no danger

Comment:

it's sometimes difficult coming up with explanations for mixes, and this is one instance. initially this was going to be an acoustic, mellow mix (as shown by track one) but took an abrupt turn when i picked 'country feedback' instead of something like 'you are the everything'. then it was a trawl through my big CD holder, from r.e.m. to the end, then back to the beginning. listening back to it, i think it evokes the book i'm reading, hence the title and the choice of 'narrative'. it's kind of melancholic, kind of drunk, with singers who are a) all male and b) mostly american. there are appearances by the occasional european to echo the source material. and i'm treating scott walker as one of the latter. i might edit out this ramble at a later date.

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