Side A
Artist	Song
Pogues	Fairytale of New York
Annie Lennox	Why
Gotan Project	Epoca
Otis Redding	Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Billy Bragg and Wilco	Walt Whitman's Niece
The Doors	Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
The Velvet Underground	Heroin
Chet Baker	Everything Happens To Me
Derek and The Dominos	Bell Bottom Blues
Lucinda Williams	Reason To Cry
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Jay-Z (feat. UGK)	Big Pimpin' (LP version)
Erykah Badu	Otherside of The Game
Marianne Faithfull with The Chieftains	Love Is Teasin'
The Rolling Stones	Love In Vain
Los Lobos	La Pistola Y El Coraz=n
Bob Dylan	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Joan Baez	Diamonds And Rust
Edith Piaf	La Vie en rose
Richard and Linda Thompson	The Dimming of The Day
Pogues	Misty Morning, Albert Bridge

Comment:

jan. 2004 -- After a moment of pop music euphoria thanks to the Pogues' cover of "Dirty Old Town" on Beth's latest tape, I was inspired to respond with a collection of songs about being Down And Out. As usual, mini-narratives: the controlled-substance escalation on side one from pure song ("Walt Whitman's Niece") through "whisky" and "Heroin," a drug which also informs the Chet Baker and Derek numbers...then the train ride through America on side two, complete with two lovers' quarrels: Mick and Marianne, Bob and Joan. Add a brown paper tape case, typewriter typed liner notes and you're all set.

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