Side A
Artist	Song
escape club	wild wild west
patsy cline	crazy
wilco	red eyed and blue
the ploughboys	let her ride
jimmy little	sweet mama
ryan adams	lovesick blues
tim togers and his twin set	bushell and a peck
the waifs	waif song
lurleen (from the simpsons)	your wife don't understand you
lucinda williams	can't let go
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
emmylou harris/linda ronstadt/dolly parton	when we're gone, long gone
indigo girls	fare thee well
don cowling	coming home
tiffany eckhardt	think about you
emma wall	lover come home
billy bragg (guthrie)	ingrid bergman
woodie guthrie	dust bowl refugee
patsy cline	i fall to pieces
johnny cash	thirteen

Comment:

when a friend requested this country and western tape, i was pretty scared. i am by NO means an expert of country music, most of it i don't even like. country music to me...is a bit of an unknown. so, the majority of this tape is probably country crossed with something else. the only way i could work out what i personally thought was country was to picture either a) a stereotypical westerns and or middle of nowhere australian pub or b) a desolate highway with a hitch-hiker, and see whether the song would fit either of those situations for background music...and this is what i came up with! and yes, i realise the first song is absolute crap, but it was so tacky i couldn't resist! also thanks to rob conroy (as usual) for the ryan adams and johnny cash stuff- my dad said i HAD to end on johnny cash. don cowling used to be the physics teacher at school, he's made a couple of tapes which are pretty tacky but pretty damn good and fun at the same time...especially the ones that mention cheese and cabana!! title unrelated, but from "sweet charity", it's a dance hall hostess' pick up line, following "you speak spanish mister?" and just before "ooh...you're sooo tall!"

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