After I started May’s mixtape, I remembered that I never posted April’s mix. I made it from a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I got for 99 cents at the record store. I taped over the cassette’s protection tabs and then I taped over the music and then I taped over the artwork.
This is another “sad dad bad had” mix for spring with a bunch of country weepers and other stuff I like.
It was originally going to be more tropical, starting with Michael Hurley’s “Polynesia.” (I listened to a bunch of his stuff after he died because so many people I know posted playlists and radio tributes to him.)
That Side B playlist betrays the fact that I originally had that side play out with Freddie McGregor’s cover of Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” but I didn’t think it fit, somehow. (And I wanted to save it for a happy summer/pool playlist in June.)
You can listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.
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