This is the track list for Don’t Ask for More Time, a mix of various songs made for Jay Thompson on January 28, 2023. It is the fifth mixtape in the 42/40 Explorer Series Box Set.
Kenny Knight, Does He Hide — from the album Crossroads (1980)
Buck Meek, Candle — from the album Two Saviors (2021)
Sylvan Esso, Coffee — from the album Sylvan Esso (2014)
The Dusseldorf Dusterboys, Ab und Zu — from the album Duo Duo (2022)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, I Took a Slip — from the album Until the Hunter (2016)
The Coral, Autumn Has Come — from the album Coral Island (2021)
Rothko, St. Giorgio — from the album A Continual Search for Origins (2002)
Donnie & Joe Emerson, Baby — from the album Dreamin’ Wild (1979)
Warpaint, Billie Holiday — from the EP Exquisite Corpse (2008)
Jane Weaver, Flock — from the album Flock (2021)
Gram Parsons, High Flyin’ Bird — from the album Another Side of This Life (2000)
Lucinda Williams, Copenhagen — from the album Blessed - The Kitchen Tapes (2011)
Jennie Pearl, Maybe in Another Year — from the compilation The Peoria Folk Anthology, Vol. 3 (1970)
Recommendations in this Guidebook:
A song of gentle hopelessness that feels like a barroom dance.
A song about eyes changing color that feels like a warmth at the edge of the room.
A song about dancing that feels like an industrial kitchen buzzing.
A song about the ephemeral activities that enrich a life from time to time that feels like darkness falling away before the front window panel of a subway train.
A song of terror and failure that feels like a skipping walk along the waterfront.
A song of autumnal melancholy that feels like a brisk ride along a rural route in an open motorcar.
A song of blissful drifting that feels like singing with a friend while walking through a well-kept woods.
A song about the specificity of love that feels like lying in a warm bed in the sunlight with the radio on.
A song about an ideal lover that feels like carrying a pile of split wood a few pieces at a time from one part of a clearing to another.
A song of cherry cough syrup dance veneer that feels like being woken up repeatedly from feverish sleep by a choir rehearsing on the other side of the wall.
A song about fear and the abstract blues that feels like going to the student coffee house to chat with friends while the musicians play and finding yourself riveted, unable to speak.
A song about unexpected death that sounds like a night spent on a balcony watching and listening as pedestrians pass on the street below.
A song of retreating from the world into a dream of love that sounds like a ceremony just before death.
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