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All in QUICK HITS
Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 440 great tracks from 440 different releases, all from the year 2022. Because 20 x 22 = 440 and I am a crazy music blog person that has been doing this bit too long to stop now.
“It’s like a dream. At times it even feels like an epic voyage across the Mediterranean isles. And the bouzouki adds tremendous flair too. I just can’t get over the sound they’ve created!”
“I love this album. Totally cool and hypnotic with interesting textures and nuances. Great music. Fascinating lyrics and story-line. Love the guitar licks and that angelic voice. Such a good album.”
Episode 161 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘STOP TALKING… I’M TRYING TO THINK’ - ft. Seven Crows, Claire Deak & Tony Dupé, Manne Skafvenstedt, Goldmund + a bunch more lost-in-thought-flavoured headphone goodness.
“The vocals are smooth enough to make Shakespeare’s three witches Q U A K E”
Episode 119 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… XMAS’ - ft. John Prine, Low, Wilder Maker, Mt. Joy + a bunch more Xmas-flavoured headphone goodness.
EPS 092 of THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW kicks off with a beauty cover from Deer Scout, and before you Hanging Valleys close things out, you'll hear tracks from Hoops, The Golden Dregs, Sam Moss and a whole bunch more.
Adam from songsfortheday asked some people to make him a Winter mix + answer some questions about the making of that mix and I did exactly that (in 2015). So grab your headphones and a blanket to curl under, because this episode goes deep into those winter feels, whichever year you’re in now.
“Truly a very autumnal album, percolating with rural nostalgia and pastoral dreaminess. You can almost feel the late afternoon sunshine on your bare arms, as perfect field recordings of birdsong and creeks flow past while zither melodies and strums wash over you. Absolutely gorgeous.”
Episode 123 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘WHEN I SAID I LIKED "COUNTRY" MUSIC’ - ft. Garrett T. Capps, Lucinda Williams, Todd Snider, Guy Clark + a bunch more proper-country-flavoured headphone goodness.
“Algia Mae is a living legend. Her spunk comes through in innuendo-soaked lyrics and perfect Piedmont finger picking.”
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different bands/musicians being carefully exported from the Canadian province of New Brunswick (or with past roots there) for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
