Sophomore Year

Playlists for Tyler - Sophomore Year

2.1 September 2011

1. Twenty Miles (3:44)/Deer Tick

2. The Ballad of the Broken Bones (3:59)/The Low Anthem

3. Deadbeat Summer (4:02)/Neon Indian

4. Look At What The Light Did Now (3:15)/Little Wings

5. Bottom Feeder (3:51)/Here We Go Magic

6. Volunteers (2:57)/Megafaun

7. Land of Dreams (3:12)/Langhorne Slim

8. The Unicorn (4:21)/ Dr. Dog

9. Easter Eve (6:30)/John Mellencamp

10. Heart of Steel (3:28)/Galactic

11. Big Jet Plane (3:59)/Angus & Julia Stone

12. Keep On the Sunny Side (3:10)/The Low Anthem

13. 500 miles (Hedy West Cover) (3:30)/Josh Ritter

14. I Corinthians 15:55 (3:38)/Johnny Cash

15. Windstorm (3:45)/School of Seven Bells

16. Playing In The Band (4:42)/Grateful Dead

17. Free Fallin' (4:16)/Tom Petty

18. Numbers Don't Lie (3:32)/ The Mynabirds

19. Animal Tracks (2:14)/Mountain Man

19.2.2 October 2011

1. Baby Day (3:48)/Melanie

2. If The Creek Don’t Rise (3:26)/Dylan LeBlanc

3. Everybody Knows (5:37)/Leonard Cohen

4. Bad Things (2:16)/Vanish Valley

5. Cornbread Nation (2:51)/Tim O'Brien

6. Life Worth Livin' (3:34)/Uncle Tupelo

7. Railroad Earth (5:28)/Railroad Earth

8. Miner's Refrain (3:59)/Gillian Welch

9. Iko Iko (6:13)/Dr. John

10. There's A Rugged Road (3:45)/Shawn Colvin

11. Far Side Banks Of Jordan (2:54)/Patty Loveless & Kris Kristofferson

12. Conscious Evolution (5:12)/Donna The Buffalo

13. What If (5:43)/Lucinda Williams

14. Out Here In The Middle (4:26)/James McMurtry

15. Rant And Roar (3:29)/Great Big Sea

16. Timbuktu (4:14)/Johnny Staats

17. Lullabys, Legends & Lies (3:27)/My Morning Jacket

18. Sing Me A Lullaby (3:21)/Harvey Reid

May 2011

Mix tape. Playlist.

The first one I made was probably in eighth grade, around 1980. I used to make at least one a year, so I would have a record of the music that I loved during that year. I painstakingly recorded cassette tapes for my mom, my dad, my friends. My boyfriend. Even a series of tapes for my best friend's wedding reception music. But mostly I recorded them for me. I listened to the radio for hours poised with the record/play buttons waiting for the first note of the that one song that I had just had to record. While I still have most of those cassettes, I don't even have a cassette player to replay them.

Times have changed of course. The universe has expanded! You don't have to listen to the radio for music (in fact, you really probably shouldn't). Music is everywhere. Obviously the internet, but also in movies, TV shows, magazines, sporting events, commercials! Finding great new interesting music has never been easier or more fun.

When my kids left for college, I thought sending them a custom playlists from mom would be a great way to stay in touch. This blog is for those playlists.

This playlist is the 8th in Series 2 (sophomore year) created for daughter No. 1, over 2000 miles away in freezing Minnesota (snowed today, May 1). She likes folk, contemporary folk, americana, singer/songwriter, alt-county, pop, indie, alternative, and some country.

2.8 – May 2011

1. The Longest Day (3:51)/Megafaun

2. Hard Times (3:46)/Eastmountainsouth

3. Jesus Don't Love Me (3:36)/Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

4. Lost in My Mind (4:21)/The Head and the Heart

5. I Follow Rivers (3:48)/Lykke Li

6. I Love You and Buddha Too (2:14)/Mason Jennings

7. Tennessee Me (2:23)/The Secret Sisters

8. Below the Hurricane (5:28)/Blitzen Trapper

9. Surprise, Surprise (4:07)/Brett Dennen

10. Clementine (4:46)/Sarah Jaffe

11. He's A Dick (2:48)/Golden Smog

12. Workin' for the MTA (3:49)/Justin Townes Earle

13. Gasoline (2:16)/Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent

14. Friends (4:14)/Cracker

15. Friend Of The Devil (4:14)/Lyle Lovett

16. To Beat The Devil (4:42)/Kris Kristofferson

17. This God Damn House (3:38)/The Low Anthem

18. The Devil's Right Hand (3:12)/The Highwaymen

19. Helplessness Blues (5:03)/Fleet Foxes