Make Good Choices
Morning Mixtape, Vol. 3
For previous mixtapes, see here for incandescent women and here for good vibrations.
Here are some songs, for drinking or not drinking. On the risky business of a life and the decision tree of contingencies. Freedom is guesswork, try to have fun.
Track list and liner notes
Part One: Let’s Get Drunk
Sam Chatmon – “Let’s Get Drunk Again”
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys – “Bubbles in My Beer”
Otis Redding – “Champagne and Wine”
Cat Power – “Lived in Bars”
John Prine – “Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You”
Frankie Yankovich and His Yanks – “In Heaven There is No Beer”
Part Two: Mistakes Were Made
Zomba Prison Project – “I Am Done with Evil”
Mance Lipscomb – “Cocaine Done Killed My Baby”
Esther Phillips – “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)”
13th Floor Elevators – “You Don’t Know”
Purple Mountains – “That’s Just the Way That I Feel”
Phosphorescent – “Reasons to Quit”
Part Three: Across the River It Was Wide Open
Chuck Berry – “Downbound Train”
Little Milton – “Grits Ain’t Groceries”
Ike & Tina Turner – “I’m Jealous”
Fontella Bass – “I Love the Man”
Ike & Tina Turner – “Funkier Than a Mosquita’s Tweeter”
Ike Turner – “Rocket 88”
Part Four: Let’s Get Drunk Again
Nina Simone – “Lilac Wine”
Gary Stewart – “Drinkin’ Thing”
Rodney Crowell – “Bluebird Wine”
The Delmore Brothers – “No Drunkard Can Enter There”
Tom T. Hall – “I Like Beer”
Adam Faucett – “Day Drinker
Part Five: Ask Me How I Feel
Tina Turner – “Ask Me How I Feel”
Vera Hall – “Trouble So Hard”
George Jones – “The Race is On”
The Yo-Yos – “Leaning On You”
Slim Whitman – “Love Song of the Waterfall”
Zomba Prison Project – “I Will Never Stop Grieving For You, My Wife”
Part Six: Morning Begins at the End of the Night
The Choir of All Aaints, Honiara – “God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi”
The Harmonizing Four – “Hallelujah”
Jess Sah Bi and Peter One – “Apartheid”
Ted Hawkins – “Sorry You’re Sick”
Stephin Merritt – “One April Day”
Jackie Shane – “Any Other Way”