EPISODE 123 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
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Note: this MTR transmission is from January 2020--
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In search of a routine more likely to get a new HI54 Mix Tape out the door every week, I started combining my mix tape making with my HI54 Mix CD updating near the end of 2019 and I’ll be damned if it didn’t turn out to be one those rare “good ideas” that actually turned out to be a good idea… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ … maybe the rumours are true and one does get better if they just keep plugging along?
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MTR - EPISODE 123
{a ‘Country-Flavoured’ episode}Episode 123 was created while shuffling around in the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘WHEN I SAID I LIKED "COUNTRY" MUSIC’ — which is an ongoing Spotify playlist I keep stocked with 95 tracks/artists that make the kind of proper country music that gets my ears tapping their boots (follow that playlist on Spotify for future repeat shuffles + jump over to MOUN.TOWN/FM for more ongoing 95 tracks/artists soundtracks). And if you’ve ever tuned into modern country radio these day, I’m sure you can understand my need to clarify whenever I say “I like country music…” out loud.
So press play on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud— and make sure to have a browse thru the listenable/clickable track listing below (as odds are good that there’ll be a track/artist or two that your ears are gonna want to spend more time with):
The Shuffle Up’d Eight // EPS 123
Track 1
(00:16) Garrett T. Capps - Born Into A Ballroom
Track 2
(3:15) Kathryn Legendre - Making It Up
Track 3
(7:09) Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go
Track 4
(10:30) Connie Smith - I Can't Remember
Track 5
(12:58) Todd Snider - Tillamook County Jail
Track 6
(16:00) Alan Barnosky - Old Freight
Track 7
(19:52) Guy Clark - Anyhow, I Love You
Track 8
(23:41) Esther Rose - Only Loving You
If you find yourself enjoying any of the above, there are some pretty decent odds that following HI54LOFI out on the internets would not be the worst use of one of your internet clicks today (I tend to share things like the above on the regular-ish… so maybe we operate on similar wavelengths?)…
…and it probably wouldn’t be too bad of an idea to follow/shuffle thru the rest of the ‘WHEN I SAID I LIKED "COUNTRY" MUSIC’ Mix CD that this week’s episode of MTR was pulled from, because something tells me if you liked the 8 songs featured in the above digital mix tape, chances are good you’ll like a good chunk of the 87 other “country” tracks found in the full 95-track mix cd playlist.
Speaking of extended listening vibes, if you ever want to shuffle thru every track that’s ever been played on an MTR episode (well, all the tracks currently available on Spotify – which is still A LOT) you can do so at anytime OVER HERE +++++ PLUS, if you’d like to extend the ‘soundtrack-by-mixtape’ vibes all day, I hi54lofi-ly recommend you go press the play button over on MOUN.TOWN/RADIO (which is a mountain town “collaboration” project I am currently doing with myself & where you will find human-curated digital mix tapes like the one above spinning all day, err day).
ALSO: HI54LOFI is in the Mixcloud Select program, which means you can now support the making of these mix tapes & the artists included on them with a monthly subscription (while also unlocking offline listening of hundreds of HI54 mix tapes for yourself) — y’know, if you’d be interested in something like that (or nobody would be mad at you if you wanted to make a one-time “thanks for the stuff” donation of your choice to HI54LOFI over here, or even if you just told someone else that they might like what they’d find over on the ol’ HI54.BLOG… that stuff helps too!).
And, final finally… if you hear something you like in this latest episode (or just in general out on the internets today), make sure to check out the people making the stuff you like and show them a little bit of love / support / appreciation (in whatever ways you can) — because everybody wins if we all start sharing some more metaphorical coffees/beers/cheers with the people making the things that make things a little bit better (and maybe we can also start giving way less to the people out there always trying to keep things shitty?).
Put good things in, good things come out.
Put good things out, good things come in.
Put good things on loop.
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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI
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