Artist	Song
The Beatles	The Night Before
Buffalo Springfield	Rock & Roll Woman
Rolling Stones	Factory Girl
The Band	Key to the Highway
Rolling Stones	Route 66
Nat King Cole Trio	Route 66
Son Volt	Ten Second News
Hank Williams	Lost Highway
Roy Kasten	Blue Island, Illinois
Bruce Springsteen	4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (featuring Levon Helm)	When I Get My Rewards
Rolling Stones	Dead Flowers
Flatt & Scruggs	Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Nat King Cole Trio	I Know that You Know
Miles Davis	Blue In Green
Benny Goodman Quartet	Vibraphone Blues
T-Bone Walker	Glamour Girl
Steely Dan	Hey Nineteen
The Left Banke	Walk Away, Renee
Beach Boys	That's Not Me
The Byrds	I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
Rolling Stones	Cool, Calm & Collected

Comment:

Okay, I might try a track by track reasoning on this one, though I sometimes find it presumptuous. As you can tell by the first and last tracks, I am at heart a child of the 60s, even if I was born a year after the Beatles broke up.
The Night Before has always been a favorite Beatles' track of mine, weren't they playing in trenches in the movie?
Buffalo Springfield I was always more attracted to than say, the Doors. I guess if I had seen Jimbo live, it might have been different, but any group with Richie Furay as the third strongest singer/songwriter is right up my alley. Stephen Stills is about up there with Rod Stewart in terms of wasted potential, coasting for decades at a time.
Factory Girl was always a favorite of mine, Beggar's Banquet accompanied my first trip and about all I remember is "IT AIN'T NO CAPITAL CRIME!!!" over and over.
Nice band outtake as a bridge here.
These next three songs have appeared many times and I was saving them for a road mix, but they just seemed to fit so well here, they are actually the second genesis of this tape, I wanted to place them somewhere in that order and then worked backwards and forwards. "Sunny 44 highway" is of course built parallel to Route 66, especially out at the beach known for cancer waiting to happen. Route 66 State Park is half-dedicated to Ted Drewe's and the tv show, etc., the other half to the Dioxin contamination and clean up on the other side of the Meramec from the museum, pretty funny if you think about it.
Hank, Hank, Hank, what more can I say? CMT ran that British series Lost Highway I guess as a way to buy back its soul from the Shania Twain-Faith Hill devil.
Blue Island and Asbury Park, great summertime songs. I thought Bruce was most interesting when he was at his horniest, "as the adolescent pumps his way into his cup" and that stuff.
"Blue Eyes" is not an oddity by any means, but a beautiful break in the Red Headed Stranger album.
When I get my rewards, God bless Levon Helm. You can really see the Devil at work when Robbie Robertson is living happy on all the royalties he stole from the other guys in the Band, Levon has suffered through Manuel & Danko's deaths and then cancer, but here he was still at his peak, with nice backing vocals from the Dirt Band. The only tolerable part of the Last Waltz "interviews" is when Robbie actually cedes the floor to Levon.
Dead Flowers by my friend Steve's favorite "American Country & Western Band". This was our favorite song to a capella all down 9th street in college, from quarter beers at the Deli to Shakespeare's and the pizza hippies.
The next two were just a way to get from country to jazz, I thought it worked well.
Blue in Green and Vibraphone Blues were the real Genesis of this CD, I had them floating on my Garden collections from the first one but never could work them in till now, when I worked backwards from Blue In Green.
Is Benny Goodman in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame? Not that it is a big deal, but he should be recognized forever for this integrated quartet, and then Lionel Hampton really bluesing it up on vocals. great great stuff.
Glamour Girl took the CD farther away from jazz to blues, and then I made a real leap of faith to Hey Nineteen, but if you listen (to the words, man) you can hear pretty much the same song, just slicker on the Steely Dan version.
Back to the sixties with Walk Away Renee, great harmony.
Since I latched on to all the Sgt. Pepper's anniversary stuff as a teen, I was led directly to Pet Sounds. "That's Not Me" is second for me to "I just wasn't made for these times" as great "uncomfortable" tunes from Brian Wilson.
The Byrds song was a nice break from all the Dylan covers on their first album.
Between the Buttons I always felt was one of the best pot albums. It is funny how acid-fueled discs like this (and Blonde on Blonde) would really be too intense for LSD, but appeal to the hophead in all of us ;-)

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