39 mixes with tracks by “Carrie Rodriguez”

Another installment of my monthly playlist highlighting new tracks from women making serious noise in the indie music scene and beyond. As always, press play and add a little beauty to your current music rotation.

Enjoy!

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"Here we come to a turning of the season, witness to the arc towards the sun. A neighbor's blessed burden within reason becomes a burden borne of all and one. And nobody, nobody knows. Let the yoke fall from our shoulders, don't carry it all, don't carry it all. We are all our hands and holders, beneath this bold and brilliant sun, and this I swear to all."

Music for a dark, smoky room. Music to drink to late and alone.

"I knew it was coming, now it’s running faster than me. I cannot avoid this, there is one kiss waiting on me. Fire in the sky, and our hearts beat on like a drum, death will inevitably come. We are all helpless to the song marching us all to our grave, marching us all to the grave."

"My room seems wrong, the bed won’t fit. I cannot seem to operate and you my love are gone. So glide away and so be healed and promise not to promise anymore, and if you come around again, then I will take, then I will take the chain from off the door."

"I know you didn’t mean it and you’re sorry that you left, I’ll go right on pretending I’ve got nothing to regret, except all of the times we wasted giving only second best."

"When it’s more than you can bear let the silence fill the air, get a glimpse of the holy light. Well, the sun is just a star, it reminds us where we are, a little part of the infinite night."

Insomnia and missed the first time around television inspired mixtape...Craig Finn gives the show a true immortalization next month when his Clear Eyes,Full Hearts record comes out...

My 2011 year in music. It's more time capsule than music criticism. It's the music I listened to and liked the most in 2011, loosely ranked in a countdown sequence, starting with #50 (Kanye West, "All of the Lights").

As North Americana as applie pie: from Martin Zellar's Minneapolis, Minnesota to Shelby Lynne's Nashville, Tennessee to James McMurtry's Austin, Texas.

Yeah, it's a bit nerve-racking to make a mix for someone when you have no idea what their taste in music is like.