This mix is just a smattering of songs that I've enjoyed this year. Some I really love and others I just thought were fun.
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James McMurtry / Canola Fields
I love this artist, he's the son of Larry McMurtry and this song in particular. This entire album is great.
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James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Texas rock/Texas Country singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove). He performs as James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards with veteran bandmates and rhythm section Darren Hess and Ronnie Johnson (not to be confused with the Cincinnati, OH, band Heartless Bastards). The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a steady diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records. Read more on Last.fm more...
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James Vincent McMorrow / Planes in the Sky
I love the beat! Might be that simple.
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Dua Lipa / Elton John
I just like this remix. Maybe I'm just trying to feel young. Fun to dance to.
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Lapsley / Womxn
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Fleet Foxes / Phoenix
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Side project of Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) & Aaron Dessner (The National). From their website: In 2008, Aaron sent Justin an instrumental sketch of a song called "Big Red Machine" for Dark Was The Night. This was before they had met in person. Justin wrote a song to it, interpreting the Big Red Machine title as a heart. 10 years of friendship later, there are 10 more songs. Big Red Machine. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Leah Kate / Veronica
I listened to this on repeat when I discovered it. I just love it.
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Yonder Mountain String Band / Midwest Gospel Radio
My daughter Josephine loves this song.
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Yonder Mountain String Band is an American progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado. The band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences that the band cites, Yonder has pioneered a sound of their own. With their traditional lineup of instruments, the band may look like a traditional bluegrass band at first glance but they’ve created their own music that transcends any genre. Read more on Last.fm more...
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William The Conquerer / The Deep End
This artist reminds of McMurtry.
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Emily King / Can't Hold Me
I haven't see her on any of our mixes. She's been around but I just discovered her and I love her stuff.
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King was born Emily Cowings to an international jazz duo, Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti. Emily and her brother were always exposed to music, especially jazz and classical sounds during their childhood. "It was an amazing experience," she says. "It was very challenging. We went from the fanciest hotels one day, to the dirtiest motels the next day -- you know, just living off a musicians paycheck. Also, being around so much incredible music. We were in the jazz world so I was with Dizzy Gillespie one day to Clark Terry the next day. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Bonny Light Horseman / Deep In Love
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Bonny Light Horseman is a three-piece band comprising Fruit Bats’ frontman Eric D. Johnson, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and guitarist Josh Kaufman. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Lowest Pair / Too Late Babe
Just a beautiful sad song.
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The Lowest Pair is an American folk band consisting of dual banjoists Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee (from The Boys n' the Barrels). The duo perform both traditional and original music, often nestling-in somewhere between. Formed in 2013, the band takes its name from the poem by musician, John Hartford. Their debut album, 36¢, was released in 2014. TheLowestPair.com Read more on Last.fm more...
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Paula Fuga / If Ever
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The Steeldrivers / Where Rainbows Never Die
This such a powerful song sung by Chris Stapleton about getting older and who we were when were young. We will all be there. I feel it sometimes now.
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The SteelDrivers is an American bluegrass band from Nashville, Tennessee. Members include fiddler Tammy Rogers, bassist Mike Fleming, guitarist Gary Nichols and banjoist Richard Bailey. The band has recorded two albums on the Rounder Records label and one independent live album recorded at The Station Inn. After playing at bluegrass festivals from around 2005 they signed to Rounder Records and released a self-titled debut in 2008. The album peaked at No. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Deslondes / Muddy Water
I just love this guy's voice.
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The Deslondes (formerly Sam Doores + Riley Downing & The Tumbleweeds) are a New Orleans-based country-soul, swamp-boogie band. They combine elements of early Stax, Sun and Atlantic records with the influence of a more raw, stripped-down sound gleaned off field recordings from Alan Lomax and Mississippi Records catalogue. In their writing as well as their lives, The Deslondes three principal songwriters—Sam Doores, Riley Downing and Cameron Snyder—endeavor to carry on the traveling country-troubadour tradition of their heroes Woody Guthrie Read more on Last.fm more...
