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Cowboy Blues
It’s certainly no secret: I have a rather romantic fixation on farmers, cowboys, gardeners, dust kickers, lone rangers and everyone of that dirty, earthy genre. Which serves - surprise, surprise! - as the inspiration for this Sunday mix.
It should be noted too that, beyond that normal infatuation, a good deal of my daydream time this week has been influenced by reading Michael Pollan’s grand opus The Omnivores Dilemma. Sure, its about modern food systems, but it’s really just about grass, sunlight, happy hogs (and cows and chickens), changing seasons, dirt digging and hearty eating. In essence: the way to live.
So this is my humble ode to that rugged pastoral ideal…romantic enough to charm and just hard enough to rock. I’ve enjoyed it with beer and apples all week long, I suggest you do the same.
Download and go find somewhere to romp :)
mari.mix/ volume two
kid/ barry cowsill
if not for you/ george harrison
somebody made for me/ emitt rhodes
thank you/ the redwalls
the woman that got away/ j.j. cale
old kentucky home/ randy newman
pacific theme/ broken social scene
oracle/ jana hunter
blue driver/ vetiver
so long, marianne/ leonard cohen
poor man’s paradise/ johnny sansone
shelter from the storm/ bob dylan
(Artwork: Adapted from a photograph by Gabriel Jeffrey)
