Gene Clark: The High Priest of Alternative Country

     Awright, I feel silly for not having anything even remotely interesting to say about Gene Clark, so I'll just say that if you're a newbie to Gene Clark and this compilation inspires you to check out more of his music, I'd recommend the live album Flowers on My Grave, his Dillard and Clark album, The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark, and his last formal cd, So Rebellious a Lover (with Carla Olson).

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Tried So Hard

100 Years From Now

Keep On Pushin'

No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine

Hear The Wind

Lover's Turnaround

Silver Raven

Day For Night

In The Pines

Lyin' Down The Middle

Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe

Dark Hollow

One In A Hundred

I Really Don't Want To Know

Young Love

Because Of You

Dark Of My Moon

Don't It Make You Want To Go Home

The Gift Soundtrack

     I've never seen the movie (but I've heard it's very good), but I'm posting the out of print 2001 soundtrack to The Gift anyway tonight.    It's a really nice mixture of 1960s country acts such as George Jones and Lee Hazelwood and newer (for 2001) alt-country acts like The Souvenirs, Neko Case, and Amy Nelson.  Just the thing for those long winter nights. :)

p.s. If you're having trouble downloading previous mixes, it's because megaupload.com has been shut down.  I'll try to post them, albeit gradually, to another site over the next couple of weeks.

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The Gift	Christopher Young
Furnace Room Lullaby	Neko Case
Great Divide	Willie Nelson
Wastin' Time	Waylon Jennings
Mama Why	Loretta Lynn
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven	Loretta Lynn
All Alone	Christopher Young
Beautiful Hills	Hasil Adkins
Trouble Is A Lonesome Town	Lee Hazelwood
Heart On A Chain	The Souvenirs
In Case We Die	Amy Nelson
I'm Alright	The Souvenirs
If I Could Only Fly	Merle Haggard
Pretty Girls	Neko Case
A Picture Of Me (Without You)	George Jones

Crazy Baby: Bobby Hebb and Alex Chilton

      For at least the last couple of years, the New York Times has devoted the second to last magazine section of the year to all different individuals who have passed away during the year.  In the 2010 edition, the music writer Rob Hoerburger did a nice tribute to Bobby Hebb and Alex Chilton - since they were both Tennessee songwriters who briefly hit it big in the mid 1960s.  I was only familiar with Hebb because he wrote Sunny, so I decided to check out more of his stuff and was not disappointed - especially his early 60s stuff, a lot of which can be found on the Rich Records story compilation.  (He also co-wrote A Natural Man with, of all people, the comic Sandy Baron - best known now for playing Jack Klompus on Seinfeld).  So the more I listened to Hebb's music, the more I thought he and Chilton would make for a nice mixtape.  See what you think.

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Thank You John	Alex Chilton
I Love Mary	Bobby Hebb
Make a Little Love	Alex Chilton
Crazy Baby	Bobby Hebb
Atlanta, GA	Bobby Hebb
Bangkok	Alex Chilton
We're Gonna Make It	Bobby Hebb
Hook Me Up	Alex Chilton
Let's get lost	Alex Chilton
For You	Bobby Hebb
I Must Be The Devil	Box Tops
Got You On My Mind	Bobby Hebb
You Don't Know What You Got Until You Lose It	Bobby Hebb
Stuff	Alex Chilton
This Bird Has Flown	Bobby Hebb
Funky National	Alex Chilton
Tee Ne Mee Ni Noo / Tip On In	Alex Chilton
I Feel So Good	Bobby Hebb

Bedazzled by Dexter Romweber

     I really don't like to harp on how underappreciated certain musicians are, but....., well, it does seem unfair that Dex Romweber has never achieved greater fame - whether it be with the Flat Duo Jets, as a solo act, or now with his sister Sara in the Dex Romweber Duo (who have put out two really good albums on Bloodshot, btw).  So what better way to start the new year than with an homage to dear Dex?

p.s. He's still got it live, too. :)

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Theme	Flat Duo Jets
Outta Sight	Dexter Romweber
Tura Satana	Flat Duo Jets
Cobra (Theme 2 Revisited)	Flat Duo Jets
Lover's Gold	Dexter Romweber & The New Romans
Midnight	Dexter Romweber
Crow's Feet	Flat Duo Jets
Tombstone Boogie	Dexter Romweber
Wild Wild Lover	Flat Duo Jets
People, Places, and Things	Dex Romweber Duo
Homicide	Dex Romweber Duo
Mexicali Baby	Flat Duo Jets
Caravan	Flat Duo Jets
Brazil	Dex Romweber Duo
It Doesn't Matter Anymore	Flat Duo Jets
Blues That Defy My Soul	Dexter Romweber
Harlem Nocturne	Flat Duo Jets
Love Letters	Dex Romweber Duo
Tidalwave	Flat Duo Jets
Lucky Eye	Flat Duo Jets
Last Kind Word Blues	Dex Romweber Duo