tjarrett

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Member Since: 1/16/2003
Total Mixes: 55
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Cassette | Alternative - College Rock
Playlist | Mixed Genre
Playlist | Alternative - College Rock

Who walked the curve of the world

Side A
Artist Song
The Clash  Know Your Rights 
The Sundays  Summertime 
September 67  Lucky Shoe 
Boston Camerata with the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community  Father James's Song 
Johnny Cash  Folsom Prison Blues 
Patti Smith  Gone Again 
Radiohead  High and Dry 
Squirrel Nut Zippers  The Interlocutor 
Morphine  French Fries With Pepper 
Herbie Hancock  Chameleon 
September 67  Poor Boy 
Soul Coughing  Lazybones 
Side 2   
Sleater-Kinney  Dig Me Out 
Beastie Boys  Funky Boss 
James Brown  (I'm a) Greedy Man (Pt 1) 
Aretha Franklin  Think 
Beck  Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day 
Johnny Cash  Rowboat 
Booker T and the MGs  Soul Dressing 
Patti Smith  Beneath the Southern Cross 
PJ Harvey  Maniac 
Radiohead  Subterranean Homesick Alien 
Squirrel Nut Zippers  Hell 
Soul Coughing  Disseminated 
Prince  The Human Body 
Radiohead  Bulletproof (I Wish I Was...) 
Jeff Buckley  Corpus Christi Carol 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Soul Coughing  Super Bon Bon 
Beck  Rowboat 
The Sundays  Folk Song 
Digable Planets  Black Ego 
Radiohead  Planet Telex 
Sleater-Kinney  Little Babies 
Soul Coughing  4 out of 5 
Lyle Lovett  Penguins 
James Brown  Night Train 
David Byrne  Fuzzy Freaky 
PJ Harvey  Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name 
Elvis Costello and the Attractions  Beyond Belief 
September 67  Giant 
Side 4   
Johnny Cash  Delia 
Beck  Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods 
Daniel Lanois with Emmylou Harris  Shenandoah 
Radiohead  Fake Plastic Trees 
Boston Camerata with the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community  Mother Ann's Song 
James Brown  Grits 
Squirrel Nut Zippers  Put a Lid On It 
Radiohead  My Iron Lung 
Digable Planets  Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies) 
Radiohead  Let Down 
Patti Smith  Dead to the World 
Soul Coughing  Sleepless 
U2  If You Wear That Velvet Dress 
September 67  Bring Back the Weight 

Comment:

This mix was recorded in September 1997, in preparation for our post-wedding road trip through the western part of Virginia, across Tennessee to Memphis and Graceland, and into the North Carolina Smokies to visit my grandmother who was unable to come to the wedding. Accordingly it's long (two 100 minute cassettes) and a little all over the map.

The emphasis was on up tempo (well, for me, anyway) and on "folk," "American," or the journey. With a few nervous notes poking through here and there as I had last minute pre-wedding jitters.

About some of the more obscure tracks and bands:

"Know Your Rights": "This is a public service announcement...with guitar!" I wish I knew then what I know now about how badly our rights could be trampled or I would have saved this one. In 1997 we weren't too bad off.
September 67 - Short-lived band featuring Shannon Worrell (see her other songs on my mix tongue tuned to the undersong) and Kristin Asbury, recorded by David Lowery of Cracker. The band did one album and a few shows on the Lilith Fair tour (and contributed a song to the live soundtrack album). Most of the songs are really closely tied to the Charlottesville area or Virginia in general. "Lucky Shoe" opens with "Welcome to Barboursville, the ruins there upon that hill/Hold still for Jefferson/His ghost is there, his ghost has won/My heart..." The closing song on the last side, "Bring Back the Weight," is a song dedicated to Worrell's former bandmate Lauren Hoffman, which opens, "Little rock and roller/Your soul is too old for America..."
Boston Camerata and the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community - Joel Cohen took his Camerata and another Boston group out to this, one of the last surviving enclaves of Shakers, to learn and record some of the traditional Shaker music before it passed along with the Shakers from the earth. "Father James' Air" is a wordless hymn of praise said to have been composed by the movement's founder after he was flogged for heresy.
"Gone Again": All the songs from Patti on this mix are from her comeback "Gone Again"; most are strongly folk influenced, the exception being this shamanistic song.
"Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day" - Beck with a four-track and a banjo, recorded well before "Loser."
"Rowboat" - two versions of this song on the mix, Johnny Cash's cover and Beck's original. Beck's version is actually more strongly "country," with a pedal steel lead, but Cash's is more intelligible.
Digable Planets, "Black Ego" - Whatever happened to Digable Planets? Their second album sunk like a lead balloon, is what. This is unfortunate, as tracks like "Black Ego" combine far left wing revolutionary rap with hypnotic jazz grooves. "Do you wish to waive your right to remain silent?" "Hell yes!" In the same vein as the Clash's "Know Your Rights"...
PJ Harvey, "Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name" - Both the PJ songs here are b-sides circa "To Bring You My Love." This one is a monster, an apocalyptic blues with a vicious guitar riff.
"Delia" - The classic murder ballad as envisioned by Johnny Cash in the mid-90s. "She was low-down and triflin', she was cold and mean/Kind of evil makes me want to grab my sub-machine/Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone."
"Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods" - If the other Beck songs were goof-offs, this one is the real thing, Beck channelling Robert Johnson for some honest to God Delta blues. From the K Records release "One Foot in the Grave."

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tubesocks1
Date: 2/2/2003
Massive and eclectic ... maybe a bit too heavy on the Radiohead & Soul Coughing, but still lots to like.
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crackity
Date: 2/2/2003
That's entirely badass.
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Geoffrey Holland
Date: 2/3/2003
really good stuff
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That's so good. I'm now in the process of making it. :D
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Dougie Fresh
Date: 2/3/2003
Hell yeah. What they said. Black Ego is possibly the best DP song ever. Pity they're gone.
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satchmo
Date: 1/4/2006
i've been trying to find the artist/title of that september 67 track bring back the weight for nearly a decade. i got that song on a mix tape in middle school and promptly lost the track listing. i breathe a welcome sigh of relief. thank you.