July 2007for: Diane Court
1. Lay Your Head Down - Keren Ann
2. Fake Empire - The National
3. Ceremony - New Order
4. Singer Sing - Dean & Britta
5. Little Honey - Kelly Willis
6. Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
7. Damage - Yo La Tengo
8. Drive On - Johnny Cash
9. The Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
10. 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
11. New Round - Beck
12. It Wasn't Me - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
13. Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams
14. I've Been High - R.E.M.
15. The Greatest - Cat Power
16. Poison Cup - M. Ward
17. Country Mile - Camera Obscura
18. Atmosphere - Joy Division
19. Brandy Alexander - Feist
20. The Things We Did and Didn't Do - The Magnetic Fields
Comments on the mix: Music for a long, solitary drive on a summer’s night. There have always been certain songs that sound like “night driving” to me, and after I found two recent releases that fit the bill (the two opening tracks here), I decided to attempt a whole mix in the genre. Of course, an entire mix of slow, intense, rhythmic songs might be a bit much, so there are a few songs that don’t quite fit the criteria but seem to match in spirit.
Comments on the cover: When I started contemplating a cover for this one, my first thought was "that Robert Frank shot from 'The Americans'." And lo and behold, Google Images brought it up instantly! That never happens!
