thoughtcrumbs: listening

I've been making compilation CDs and tapes since the late '80s. Travel back in time with my developing music psyche, won't you?

Fifth in the Songsmiths collection of singer-songwriters. In which the Portlanders and Pittsburghers comingle and decide they get along just fine, thank you. (December 2005)

1. Fibre de Verre - Paris Combo
2. Anthony - Nickel Creek
3. Stumble - Lindsay Mac
4. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
5. I'm Not Setting the World on Fire - Brad Yoder
6. Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
7. Live Long - Kings of Convenience
8. Lilly - Pink Martini
9. Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists
10. Get Your Way - Jamie Cullum
11. Losing My Mind - Paul Fowler
12. Since You've Been Around - Rosie Thomas
13. Untitled - Ben Gibbard
14. Move On - Mike Doughty
15. Middle of Nowhere - Hot Hot Heat
16. The Dog Song - Nellie McKay
17. Nite Becomes Day - Citizen Cope
18. Soul Meets Body (live acoustic) - Death Cab for Cutie
19. Between the Bars - Madeleine Peyroux
20. Sister I'm a Poet - Colin Meloy
21. Sister Kate - The Ditty Bops
22. Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl - Broken Social Scene

Fourth in the Songsmiths collection of singer-songwriters. Special emphasis on Pacific NW musicians peppered with bluegrass and pop. (December 2004)

1. Walk or Ride - The Ditty Bops
2. Old Fashioned Morphine - Jolie Holland
3. Legionnaire's Lament - The Decemberists
4. Due to Lamplooking - Noise for Pretend
5. Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle & Sebastian
6. Blue Diamonds - The Long Winters
7. David - Nellie McKay
8. Dance Me to the End of Love - Madeleine Peyroux
9. When Doves Cry - McKinley
10. Distractions - Zero 7
11. I Was Just Thinking - Teitur
12. Know-How - Kings of Convenience
13. Pure Imagination - Claudia Acuña
14. Young Pilgrims - The Shins
15. On Ice - Chris Thile
16. Inconsolable - Jonatha Brooke & The Story
17. Them That Got - Ben Folds
18. Una Notte a Napoli - Pink Martini

Moody jazz non-standards and well-knowns performed by lesser-knowns. (December 2001)

1. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? - Diana Krall
2. Roxanne - George Michael
3. Woodstock - Tuck and Patti
4. I was Doing Alright - Davina
5. Lush Life - Lisa Ekdahl
6. Azure Te - Milton Craig Nealy
7. Bewitched - Claudia Acuña
8. Much at All - Susan Werner
9. Embraceable You - Andy Bey
10. If I Had You - Nnenna Freelon
11. Smile - Rickie Lee Jones
12. Heart Beyond Repair - Harry Connick Jr.
13. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face - Cassandra Wilson
14. Good Morning Heartache - Ol' Dirty Bastard with Lil' Kim
15. The Blues are Brewin' - Billie Holliday

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