Winter 2014 Mixtape

winter on the Cumberland Plateau 

Seasonal playlists are a labor of love. First, I put together a list of songs that, to me, match the season at hand; I listen the crap out of them all season long. I group and order each song so that they flow well and can be listened from first to last, in one setting. Then I make them available for friends to listen to, singalong to, and share. And I really like this winter's.

It opens with the sultry harmonies of the ladies in Mountain Man and then hits the ground running with a pair of grizzled yet melodic punk anthems that beg to be sang along with. The Weakerthans transition into the rest of the mix peppered with americana, country, and just enough good ol' fashioned rock n' roll to keep you awake.

The "rough draft" of this playlist was thrown together before a long car ride, and that's what this finalized group of songs most appropriately lend themselves to: long car rides with friends. Because, for better or worse, "we're only as good as the company we keep," sings Florida's americana veterans on the last track. So whether you're wrestling southeastern pebbles, chasing the Gulf Coast's cold-front swells, or just going to grandmother's house, this mixtape will help you get over the river and through the woods.

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1. Mountain Man - Buffalo (Made the Harbor)
2. Iron Chic - Bogus Journey (The Constant One)
3. Diarrhea Planet - Separations (I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams)
4. The Weakerthans - Psalm For the Elks Lodge Last Call (Reconstruction Site)
5. Peggy Honeywell - Sing Sung Sang (Faint Humms)
6. Rising Appalachia - Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (The Sails of Self)
7. Gregory Alan Isakov - The Stable Song (That Sea, The Gambler)
8. Grand Falconer - Midwest (Midwest)
9. The Branches - O Come O Come Emmanuel (Songs for Christmas)
10. Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With the Flow (Freak Out!)
11. Uncle Tupelo - Screen Door (No Depression)
12. Iron & Wine - Winter Prayers (Ghost on Ghost)
13. The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight (Islands)
14. Red City Radio - We Are the Sons of Woody Guthrie  (To The Sons and Daughters of Woody Guthrie)
15. Have Gun, Will Travel - Take Me Home, Alice (Fiction, Fact, or Folktale?)

Winter 2013 was pretty good too.