75 mixes with tracks by “michelle shocked”

13 songs for a writing monday — including elvis costello, robert deeble and the alabama shakes. write on.

My favorite songs often tell a story or have some sort of context-embedded narrative with dialogue and the type of details found more in myth and fiction than in poetry and ballads. In these stories, characters walk, talk, fight, sail, and shoot grizzlies. Fourty-five tracks including music by Bauhaus, Billy Bragg, and Kate Bush.

Over a hundred tracks for a long day ahead.

hymns, spirituals & vaguely religious songs collected from hither and yon.

18 tracks, including: Iris Dement, Van Morrison, Greg Brown

Noteworthy female musicians, vocalists and composers, no popschlock here.

Ten songs for the coming weekend....

129 tracks including music by Mark Knopfler, The Wiyos, Hedningarna.

Twenty-one tracks including music by R.L. Burnside, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House

Nine great songs sung twice each. Photo: Teri Slotkin, Fraternal Twins

Fourteen tracks about the great state of California....including music by Al Jolson, Joni Mitchell, and Billy Bragg & Wilco. Including selections by poet T.R. Hummer and writer Ben Tanzer.

Seventy-four tracks including music by A Girl Called Eddy, Air and Amanda Palmer.