Hello all,
and welcome to what will be the last post for the summer! I’ve got a special triptych-mixtape for you all today! About a week back a good friend of mine asked that I produce a few mixes for a gathering the night before his wedding. Unfortunately (like, whatever, y’know) due to technical difficulties they could not be played that evening (the entire wedding weekend, however, was absolutely fantastic!). Anyway, not one to let a good MixTape go to waste, I present them to you here. I do believe them to be real nice & easy, and tons of fun, with some great tunes that have been featured here in these pages before and some that I was planning on getting to someday.
May these serve you well here at the tail-end of the summer! So sit back, roll forward, and enjoy!
But above all–ENJOY YOURSELF!__
Volume I—Click here to listen & Download——-
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Volume II—Click here to listen & Download——-
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Volume III—Click here to listen & Download——-
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A MOUTHFUL OF PENNIES PRESENTS: NUPTIALS
VOLUME ONE:
- Pre-Nump – Outkast
- When You’re Smiling and Astride Me – Father John Misty
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me) – Al Green
- Happy – The Rolling Stones
- Alright, Okay, You Win – Peggy Lee
- You Make Loving Fun – Fleetwood Mac
- Baby It’s You – The Beatles
- Let Me Be Good To You – Carla Thomas
- Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) – Janis Joplin
- River Deep – Mountain High – Harry Nilsson
- Beautiful Girl – INXS
- Over The Hills And Far Away – Led Zeppelin
- The Brides Have Hit Glass – Guided By Voices
- What A Woman – Howlin’ Wolf
- The Spy – The Doors
- Light My Fire – Al Green
- Shake Your Hips – The Rolling Stones
- We Can Work It Out – Stevie Wonder
- CREEP – Afghan Whigs
- Tenement Lady – T.Rex
- John, I’m Only Dancing – David Bowie
- Fool I Am – Pat Ferguson
- I Just Want To Make Love To You – Etta James
- Let Me Roll It – Paul McCartney & Wings
VOLUME TWO:
- Your Southern Can is Mine – The White Stripes
- When I Look In Your Eyes – André 3000
- Lady Madonna – Fats Domino
- Loving Cup – The Rolling Stones
- Ring Of Fire – Ray Charles
- Rag Mama Rag – The Band
- Pretty Thing – Bo Diddley
- Tee Pees 1-12 – Father John Misty
- Would You – Richard Swift
- Andy’s Chest – Lou Reed
- Milkcow Blues Boogie – Elvis Presley
- Slow Down – Backbeat Band
- Rip It Up/ Ready Teddy – John Lennon
- Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox) – John Lennon
- Live with Me – The Rolling Stones
- Planet Queen – T.Rex
- She Belongs To Me – Bob Dylan
- Black Is the Color – Rhiannon Giddens
- I Gotta Know – Wanda Jackson
- Love Having You Around – Stevie Wonder
- Right – David Bowie
- Oh! Darling – The Beatles
- Call On Me – Big Brother And The Holding Company (feat. Janis Joplin)
- Candy – Iggy Pop
VOLUME THREE:
- Mystify – INXS
- Be Kind – Devendra Banhart
- Didn’t I – Darondo
- Mind Games – George Clinton
- Dear Prudence – The Beatles
- Little Red Rooster – Sam Cooke
- Sweet Feeling – Candi Staton
- Idlewild Blue (Don’t Chu Worry ‘Bout Me) – André 3000
- Rusty Cage – Johnny Cash
- Can You Get To That? – Funkadelic
- Yazoo Street Scandal – The Band
- Police & Thieves – The Clash
- Do Unto Others – Pee Wee Crayton
- Goin’ To Acapulco – Jim James & Calexico
- Candela – Buena Vista Social Club
- Momma Miss America – Paul McCartney
- Got To Get You Into My Life – Chris Clark
- Wah-Wah – George Harrison
- Mean To Me – Dean Martin
- This Magic Moment – Lou Reed
- Be My Baby – John Lennon
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It’s Good to Feel you are Close to Me
It’s good to feel you are close to me in the night, love,
invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal,
while I untangle my worries
as if they were twisted nets.
Withdrawn, your heart sails through dream,
but your body, relinquished so, breathes
seeking me without seeing me perfecting my dream
like a plant that seeds itself in the dark.
Rising, you will be that other, alive in the dawn,
but from the frontiers lost in the night,
from the presence and the absence where we meet ourselves,
something remains, drawing us into the light of life
as if the sign of the shadows had sealed
its secret creatures with flame.
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Pablo Neruda, from Cien Sonetos de Amor (1959).
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All the best to you & yours,
(Oh, and J2 & Dana, despite this entry in Ambrose Bierce’s The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary, “Love, noun. A temporary insanity curable by marriage;” I love you guys, wish you well, and know you will make and remain a fine union in the light of life),
Bobby Calero