Artist	Song
The Doors	Roadhouse Blues
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Gimme Three Steps
Thin Lizzy	The Boys Are Back in Town
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Hot Rod Lincoln
Van Morrison	Domino
David Bowie	Suffragette City
Neil Young	Like a Hurricane
The Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man
Queen	We Will Rock You
Led Zeppelin	Heartbreaker
Black Sabbath	Paranoid
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Fire
Santana	Soul Sacrifice
The Allman Brothers Band	Whipping Post [Live at the Fillmore East]
Dobie Gray	Drift Away

Comment:

Although it looks like one, this is not another "guilty pleasures" mix (for volume two of that series, I am awaiting receipt of the esteemed M. Fundak's guilty pleasures mix). Instead, this was a gift for Jen's father, who was recently diagnosed with throat cancer and who is to undergo (outpatient, thankfully--they caught it early) surgery in 8 days to remove his tumor. Joe is a classic guy--a very sharp Vietnam vet-turned-mechanic with a great sense of humor, a ton of raw intelligence and more common sense than anyone I've ever met. Oh, and let's not forget, an incredibly large heart. He and I talked about my doing something like this for him a couple of years ago and I never got around to it, but I figured this would be a good week for him to enjoy it in his truck on his way to and from work--something upbeat, pretty damned fun and, in its own way, life-affirming (hence the sort of sentimental closer). Jen's rule when I asked her questions about what songs to include was "the more he's heard it, the more he'll like it", hence the VERY well-known choices by each artist. The obviousness of it, however, does not detract from its listenability. I hope this helps him as much as it can.

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