Summer Mixtape #2: frontporchsummereveningmusic

I’ve been listening to a lot of Emmylou Harris and a little bit of Steve Earle and Gillian Welch recently. In doing so I recalled this mixtape from nearly twenty years ago that was really more something for me and Melissa to listen to than a mixtape to give to anyone. I think maybe it’s time for a backporchsummereveningmusic mixtape, upon returning to this. Something I can handle for certain.

The thing about this one: it’s got famous songs by famous artists on it. I for certain subscribe to a philosophy that says a mixtape is not a collection of your favorite songs or of the best songs by the best artists. But here’s one that contradicts that.

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Here is the track list for frontporchsummereveningmusic, a mixtape I made for Melissa and me to listen together in the late summer of 2007, when we were staying at an empty academic summer camp-like campus in Northwestern Iowa, in a cabin with a porch (not screened):

1. Jesse Winchester, Mississippi You’re On My Mind — from the album Learn to Love It (1974)

2. Gillian Welch, Elvis Presley Blues — from the album Time (The Revelator) (2001)

3. Uncle Tupelo, Screen Door — from the album No Depression (1990)

4. Lucinda Williams, 2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten — from the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)

5. Ryan Adams, Oh My Sweet Carolina — from the album Heartbreaker (2000)

6. Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road — from the album Born to Run (1975)

7. Calexico, Minas de Cobre (For Better Metal) — from the album The Black Light (1998)

8. Neil Young, Albuquerque — from the album Tonight’s the Night (1975)

9. Wilco, Ashes of American Flags — from the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

10. The Rolling Stones, Sweet Virginia — from the album Exile on Main Street (1972)

11. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Wrote a Song for Everyone — from the album Green River (1969)

12. Cowboy Junkies, Blue Moon Revisited — from the album The Trinity Session (1989)

13. Old Crow Medicine Show, Wagon Wheel — from the album O.C.M.S. (2004)

14. Pinetop Seven, Quit These Hills — from the album Rigging the Toplights (1998)

15. Neko Case, I Wish I Was the Moon — from the album Blacklisted (2002)