Good Morning Mr. Trucker

Around this time last year, I put together a road songs compilation. I decided to continue the tradition this year, but focus solely on truck driving songs (though a few of them, like Ravishing Ruby, aren't really about truck driving). And if you're dying for more truck driving songs, the excellent 1996 Rig Rock Deluxe comp put out by Diesel Only Records is still in print. (there's a temporary problem uploading pix, so I'll put it up tomorrow.)

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Good Morning Mr. Trucker World Famous Blue Jays

Just A Few More Miles Dave Dudley

Truck Driving Joe Ken Clark

Miss Marie & The Bedford Blaze Marty Stuart

Nitro Express Bill Kirchen

Good Luck 'N' Truckin' Tonite Dale Watson

Truck Driver's Queen Moore & Napier

Truck Driver's Ride Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant

Truck Driver's Blues Rosie Flores

Roll On Big Mama Joe Stampley

Drag 'Em Off The Interstate, Sock It To 'Em J. P. Blues Dick Curless

Truck Drivin' Man (Live) Uncle Tupelo

Roll Truck Roll Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band

King Of The Open Road Red Sovine

Looking At The World Through A Windshield Del Reeves

Little Pink Mack Kay Adams

Semi-Crazy Junior Brown

Ravishing Ruby Tom T. Hall

Trucker's Rag Moon Mullican

Roll, Truck, Roll Red Simpson

Chrissy Hynde and Emmylou Harris redux

As I mentioned when I posted a Chrissie Hynde and Emmylou Harris mixtape last year, for those of a certain age, Emmy and Chrissy really were the it girls of rock and country, respectively. In the ensuing years, Chrissy has gotten more country (okay, twangy) and Emmylou has gotten more rock and...... well, a volume 2 seemed like a good idea. (If you missed it the first time around, you can download Volume 1 here.)

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Drivin' Wheel Emmylou Harris

Message Of Love The Pretenders

Born To Run. Emmylou Harris

(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie Emmylou Harris

Love's A Mystery The Pretenders

They'll Never Take His Love from Me Emmylou Harris

Show Me The Pretenders

My City Was Gone The Pretenders

High Powered Love Emmylou Harris

Talk Of The Town The Pretenders

Sweetheart Of The Pines Emmylou Harris

Never Do That The Pretenders

Spanish Johnny Emmylou Harris

Tulsa Queen Emmylou Harris

Rabo De Nube The Pretenders

Boulder to Birmingham Emmylou Harris

Stop Your Sobbing Pretenders

Mann Up: An Aimee Mann Collection

About a month ago, a friend of mine got us tickets to see Aimee Mann in January. I also just happened to listening to Lost in Space and Bachelor No. 2 (her two best albums, imo) back to back, so I thought it was time to put together an Aimee Mann compilation. In addition to single cuts from her formal releases (including two of her 'Til Tuesday albums, but not from her Christmas album) there's a bunch of stuff from soundtracks, tribute albums, etc.

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Coming Up Close

Fifty Years After The Fair

Sign Of Love

Two of Us

Little Bombs

Phoenix

You're With Stupid Now

Jimmy Hoffa Jokes

Reason To Believe

Momentum

The Great Beyond

High On Sunday 51

Nightmare Girl

At The Edge Of The World

The Other End (Of The Telescope)

You Do

Saluting 70's Singer Songwriters

The term "singer songwriter" often invokes a certain amount of derision today - especially when you mention the 1970s in the same breath. And while there may be certain groups/artists (who shall remain nameless) in that category that haven't aged well or weren't so great to begin with, there were really a lot of great 70's singer songwriters, even if they weren't necessarily labeled as such. For your listening pleasure, then, here's 9 of my singer songwriter favorites.

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Close My Eyes                   Arthur Russell

Oh Fernanda Why              Arthur Russell

Here Tonight                      Gene Clark

With Tomorrow                 Gene Clark

So Far Away                      Carole King

Brother, Brother                 Carole King

Speed Of Sound                 Chris Bell

Look Up                             Chris Bell

Future Song                       Curtis Mayfield

Keep On Keeping On        Curtis Mayfield

Inner City Blues                 Rodriguez

To Whom It May Concern Rodriguez

Campo De Encino              Harry Nilsson

Gotta Get Up                      Harry Nilsson

Brother                               Jorge Ben

Oba, Lá Vem Ela             Jorge Ben

Half Past France                 John Cale

Big White Cloud                John Cale