Something winter this way comes
Morning Mixtape, Vol. 5
Mixtape #5 is a wintry affair; for previous mixtapes (Incandescent women! Good vibrations! Questionable choices! Little Richard!)—see here.
Here is a winter mix from me to you to keep you warm and cozy as the holiday haze lifts and makes way for ever more fog. Bundle up and tuck your headphones under your toboggan.1 Curated and collated to warm the blood.
No need for sleds or winter hats down here in sunny southwest Florida. Be that as it may, we must not grow complacent in the season:
“They may fall from trees,” the National Weather Service reports. “But they are not dead.”
Track list below, enjoy!
Track list and liner notes
Malawi Mousy Boys – “Ndakhumudwa (You Betrayed Me)”
Melanie – “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma”
Darando – “Didn’t I”
Dorothy Ashby – “Come Live With Me”
The Chi-Lites – “My Heart Just Keeps on Breaking”
Esther Phillips – “Why Should We Try Anymore”
Lil Johnson – “Let’s Get Drunk and Truck”
Moondog – “Lament I, ‘Bird’s Lament’”
Swamp Dogg w/Justin Vernon, Jenny Lewis – “Sleeping Without You is a Dragg)”
WITCH – “Introduction”
Macka B – Cucumba
“Zvichapera” – Chiwoniso
Shirley Ann Lee – “There’s A Light”
Dobie Gray – “Good Old Song”
Jo Mama – “Love is Blind”
Dry Bread – “Yamar”
Candi Staton – “I’m Just a Prisoner of Your Good Lovin’”
Linda Ronstadt – “Baby You’ve Been On My Mind”
Sibylle Baier – “Tonight”
Luna – “Season of the Witch”
Pylon – “Crazy”
Sinead O’Connor – “Mandinka”
Natalia Lafourcade – Hasta la Raíz
Sufjan Stevens – “Put the Lights On the Tree”
The Tonettes – “I Gotta Know”
Cary Ann Hearst – “Who’s Gonna Raise These Babies?”
Amanaz – “Khala My Friend”
Sugar Pie DeSanto – “Soulful Dress”
Lee Moses – Bad Girl Pt. 1
Richard In Your Mind – “What’s it All About”
Joan Armatrading – “Willow”
Bobbie Gentry – “Fancy”
Camille Yarbrough – “Take Yo’ Praise”
Othar Turner – Granny, Will Your Dog Bite
Loudon Wainwright III – “New Paint”
Janis Ian – “At Seventeen”
Golden Smog – “Please Tell My Brother”
Vashti Bunyan – “Diamond Day”
Atta Isaacs, Gabby Pahinui – “I’m-A-Livin’-On-A-Easy”
Willie Nelson – “Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)”
I am only just now learning that using this word to refer to a knitted winter hat is a Southern regionalism. I’m still reeling. Stirring that you can still find language idiosyncrasies in middle age, thought I’d gotten it all sorted by now.