Come Together - Decade 2 Mega Mix

Come Together - Decade 2

Another second decade of rock mega mix.

Approximately 1965-1975
8 hours 9 minutes

1. Come Together - The Beatles, 1969
2. Let's Work Together - Canned Heat, 1970
3. Dialogue (Part One) - Chicago, 1972
4. Southern Man - Neil Young, 1970
5. Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues, 1968
6. Pinball Wizard - The Who, 1969
7. I'm Not Like Everybody Else - The Chocolate Watch Band, 1968
8. Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground, 1970
9. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin, 1969
10. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker, 1969
11. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth, 1970
12. Beware Of Darkness - Leon Russell, 1971
13. Season Of The Witch - Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills, 1968
14. Sookie Sookie - Steppenwolf, 1968
15. Peace Frog - The Doors, 1970
16. I've Seen All Good People - Yes, 1971
17. Low Yo Yo Stuff - Captain Beefheart, 1972
18. Angry Eyes - Loggins & Messina, 1972
19. Bad Side Of The Moon - Elton John, 1971
20. Wild Night - Van Morrison, 1971
21. I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John, 1968
22. The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone, 1971
23. Ball And Chain - Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1968
24. Help, I'm A Rock - The Mothers Of Invention, 1966
25. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan, 1965
26. We're A Winner - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, 1968
27. Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - Stevie Wonder, 1969
28. M'Lady - Sly & The Family Stone, 1968
29. There Was A Time - James Brown, 1968
30. I'll Bet You - Funkadelic, 1970
31. Fire And Rain - The Isley Brothers, 1971
32. By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Isaac Hayes, 1969
33. Slippin' Into Darkness - War, 1971
34. Spirit In The Dark - Aretha Franklin, 1970
35. Reflections - The Supremes, 1968
36. Cloud Nine - The Temptations, 1969
37. Harlem - Bill Withers, 1971
38. Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye, 1971
39. Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron, 1970
40. Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones, 1968
41. Turn On / Tune In / Drop Out - The Fugs, 1968
42. Heroin - The Velvet Underground, 1967
43. White Cat Heat - The Godz, 1966
44. Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders, 1968
45. Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes, 1968
46. Hallogallo - NEU!, 1972
47. The Story In Your Eyes - The Moody Blues, 1971
48. 5:15 - The Who, 1973
49. Do The Strand - Roxy Music, 1973
50. 20th Century Boy - T. Rex, 1973
51. Pablo Picasso - John Cale, 1975
52. Real Man - Todd Rundgren, 1975
53. Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis, 1974
54. Everything I Own - Ken Boothe, 1974
55. The Hurt - Cat Stevens, 1973
56. Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield, 1970
57. Because Of You - Gene Clark, 1971
58. Crayon Angels - Judee Sill, 1971
59. Let It Be Me - Roberta Flack, 1970
60. Oh Me Oh My - Lulu, 1970
61. At Seventeen - Janis Ian, 1975
62. Love Hurts - Gram Parsons, 1974
63. Forever Young - Bob Dylan, 1974
64. A Case Of You - Joni Mitchell, 1971
65. A Man Needs A Maid - Neil Young, 1972
66. Chestnut Mare - The Byrds, 1970
67. Alligator - Grateful Dead, 1968
68. All The Love Of The Universe - Santana, 1972
69. Hocus Pocus - Focus, 1971
70. Orgone Accumulator - Hawkwind, 1973
71. I Been Hoodood - Dr.John, 1973
72. Soulsville - Isaac Hayes, 1971
73. What Am I Living For? - Mark-Almond, 1973
74. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City - Bruce Springsteen, 1973
75. Babylon - New York Dolls, 1974
76. Everyone I Meet Is From California - America, 1975
77. California Saga (On My Way To Sunny California) - The Beach Boys, 1973
78. Susie-Q - Jose Feliciano, 1970
79. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash, 1972
80. I've Been Hurt - Bill Deal & The Rhondells, 1969
81. Rainy Day Women #13 & 35 - Bob Dylan, 1966
82. Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association, 1966
83. House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals, 1964
84. Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone, 1966
85. Caroline Say II - Lou Reed, 1973
86. Paris 1919 - John Cale, 1973
87. Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart, 1971
88. Captain Jack - Billy Joel, 1973
89. It Makes No Difference - The Band, 1975
90. Take It To The Limit - Eagles, 1975
91. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long - Chicago, 1974
92. Love, Devotion & Surrender - Santana, 1973
93. Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack, 1973
94. Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth, 1971
95. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder, 1973
96. The World Is A Ghetto - War, 1972
97. People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, 1965
98. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Fairport Convention, 1969
99. Sitting - Cat Stevens, 1972
100. Starman - David Bowie, 1972
101. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who, 1971
102. Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory - Traffic, 1973
103. Conquistador - Procol Harum, 1972
104. Get Back - The Beatles, 1970

Glass of Beer - Sponge Candy Stout

Imperial Sponge Candy Stout, a bourbon barrel aged stout from Resurgence Brewing, Buffalo, NY.

I've had this wonderful stout a few times over the year both by the bottle and on tap at the brewery. This is a photo of a bottle I took to Philly to share with my sister Betsy who also loves a good stout. We drank this together on her backyard deck on a warm July evening.

This cellared from 2015 bourbon barrel aged stout was a gift from Sean and Ashely.

Neuromancer

The What When Book List 

Neuromancer by William Gibson, 1984

Read in January 1986

Another one of my favorite science fiction novels. This one from one of the pioneers of cyberpunk. Reading this was liking looking into a new world that had just opened up around us with computers and the emerging online technology that I would become so involved with in my everyday work life. It's amazing how much influence Gibson has had on media culture.

I always look forward to reading his books.

The books of William Gibson that I've read:

• Neuromancer, 1984, January 1986
• Count Zero, 1986, June 1990
• Burning Chrome, 1988, September 1990
• The Difference Engine, 1990, March 1992
• Mona Lisa Overdrive, 1988, October 1992
• Virtual Light, 1993, March 1994
• Pattern Recognition, 2003, August 2003
• Spook Country, 2007, March 2008
• Zero History, 2010, March 2011
• The Peripheral, 2014, April 2015

I've missed a couple of books from the late 1990's

Some Say Love - Reflections Decade 6

Some Say Love. The opening line from the opening songs by Phosphorescent. Another 8 hour plus collection of indie pop and Americana music from the 6th decade of rock (approximately 2006 - 2016). 

This mega mix includes four previous mixes from my Reflections series and combined with some other songs from the era all carefully selected to be played in this order or on random shuffle.

Here is a link to Spotify to have a listen.

Some Say Love - Reflections Decade 6

1. Song For Zula - Phosphorescent
2. I've Got This Friend - The Civil Wars
3. Empty Shell - Cat Power
4. Crazy For You - Adele
5. Every Time the Sun Comes Up - Sharon Van Etten
6. The Night We Met - Lord Huron
7. I Can See The Pines Are Dancing - A. A. Bondy
8. Real Peach - Henry Jamison
9. Pity Love - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
10. Crazy - The Kills
11. Gentle On My Mind - Billy Bragg and Joe Henry
12. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Patti Smith
13. Afterglow - José González
14. Next Time - Laura Marling
15. Everything Looks Better (In Hindsight) - The Wild Reeds
16. I Don't Feel It Anymore (Song of the Sparrow) - William Fitzsimmons
17. The Only Way - Jim Noir
18. If This Is Goodbye - Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
19. The House at Sea - Amor de Días
20. Colour Me In - Damien Rice
21. I Am Not in Love Anymore - Liza Anne
22. Till The Town Goes Dark - Aaron Lee Tasjan
23. Where'd You Go - Boy & Bear
24. You Make It Easy - Golden Smog
25. Sweet Dreams - The Henry Girls
26. I'm Sorry Now - Will Hoge
27. Bashed Out - This Is The Kit
28. Nothing Ever Comes My Way - Falls
29. Find a Way - Quiet Arrows
30. Moving in Slow Motion - The Sweet Remains
31. The Closer I Am - The Accidental
32. Lay Your Head Down - Keren Ann
33. The One That Got Away - The Civil Wars
34. Blend - Aldous Harding
35. Dandelion - The Black Atlantic
36. Walk Through A Cloud - The Donkeys
37. He Lays In The Reins - Calexico / Iron and Wine
38. On That Day - Asgeir
39. Ships - Tyler Ramsey
40. The Fire - Kina Grannis
41. Olivia - Lowland Hum
42. Lady Brain - The Harmaleighs
43. Alaska - Maggie Rogers
44. Long Way Around - The Sweeplings
45. Ends Of The Earth - Lord Huron
46. Aeroplane - Holly Throsby
47. I Know Myself - Amen Dunes
48. All Those Girls - Jolie Holland
49. Priscilla - Sea Wolf
50. Stanley Park - Aoife O'Donovan
51. The Only Thing - Sufjan Stevens
52. Fool's Errand - Fleet Foxes
53. Dirty Paws - Of Monsters and Men
54. I Thought I Knew - Alela Diane
55. Love Ain't Enough - The Barr Brothers
56. Tiger Striped Sky - Roo Panes
57. Street of the Love of Days - Amor de Días
58. Still - Daughter
59. I Believe In You - Black Dub
60. It's Happening Again - Agnes Obel
61. Take The Night Off - Laura Marling
62. Some Day Soon - Alexi Murdoch
63. No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross - Sufjan Stevens
64. Digging Shelters - Neil Halstead
65. Tenuousness - Andrew Bird
66. Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) - Phosphorescent
67. Dust to Dust - The Civil Wars
68. My Lover Will Go - Ane Brun
69. Within You - Ray Lamontagne
70. Difference is Time - Conor Oberst
71. Chill In The Air - Amos Lee
72. Ain't Gonna Lose You - Brett Dennen
73. We Are Fine - Sharon Van Etten
74. Low Rising - The Swell Season
75. Maybe on Monday - Calexico
76. Southside Of Heaven - Ryan Bingham
77. 24 Frames - Jason Isbell
78. Roll On - Son Volt
79. Tears Of Joy - Lucinda Williams
80. Two Hearts - Ryan Adams
81. Blue Eyes - Middle Brother
82. Handle With Care - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
83. Another Year Again - The Sadies
84. Still New - Smith Westerns
85. Come To Mary - Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
86. I Of The Storm - Of Monsters And Men
87. Thirsty Man - Blitzen Trapper
88. Shaking All Over - Great Lake Swimmers
89. Evil Forces - Evening Hymns
90. Devil's Spoke - Laura Marling
91. Dead City Emily - Marissa Nadler
92. Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozier
93. Marked for Death - Emma Ruth Rundle
94. The Only Thing Worth Fighting For - Lera Lynn
95. Palace - The Antlers
96. Home - Little May
97. Summer Fades - Smoke Fairies
98. Little Toy Gun - Honeyhoney
99. Wolf - First Aid Kit
100. Demons - The National
101. Oak Tree - Mirel Wagner
102. Snake Song - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
103. Fortune Teller - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
104. Stars - Angel Olsen
105. Weight Of The World - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
106. The Ghost Who Walks - Karen Elson
107. Danger and Dread - Brown Bird
108. Follow The Lights - Ryan Adams
109. Go It Alone - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
110. Dead Roses - Joan Osborne
111. Holy Weather - Civil Twilight
112. Desire - Anna Calvi
113. I Prefer Your Love - St. Vincent
114. Out Of Tune - Real Estate
115. Dives - Alvvays
116. Puts Me To Work - Cate Le Bon
117. Hellhole Ratrace - Girls
118. You Know What I Mean - Cults
119. Youth - Daughter
120. Lazuli - Beach House
121. Thank You - Dido
122. Just A Dream - Great Northern
123. Knife - Grizzly Bear
124. Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron and Wine
125. Are You Alright? - Lucinda Williams
126. I Still Care For You - Ray LaMontagne
127. I’d Want You - Over The Rhine
128. All I Can - Sharon Van Etten
129. She Turns Me On - Mary Lou Lord
130. Sophie - Small Black
131. Storm Comin’ - Ana Egge
132. First Train Home - Imogen Heap

Uptown String Band

I was a member of the Uptown String Band which was a Philadelphia Mummers Association string band that marched up Broad Street every New Year’s Day. I joined the band in 1962 and marched in my first parade January 1, 1963. The last parade was in 1968.

Our next door neighbor Joe DeLuca was an accordion player who got me to join the band with him. He only lasted a couple of years. I started out playing the clarinet but a year later I bought a tenor saxophone from one of the other guys and took lessons from one of the band members.

We marched in many parades throughout the year and especially on holidays like the 4^th of July and Memorial Day. We also gave concerts in bandstands and halls around the city. Occasionally we would march through a neighborhood in our regular clothes as a fundraising activity.

We always marched in the parades wearing the costume from the previous New Year’s Parade so each year we had different costumes. People loved it when a mummers string band came down the street on the 4^th of July. We would march in parades throughout the region and sometimes even farther away like Baltimore MD or up in New York.

There were 22 string bands and we were all in competition. Bands not only marched all the way from South Philly to downtown but also practiced carefully choreographed routines along the way and then performed for the judges at City Hall. Of course it was all on TV too.

The band had a clubhouse on Lehigh Avenue a few blocks from Germantown Avenue. It was a three story house. The first floor was a practice space for the entire band and also had a kitchen. The second floor was office space. There was a third floor where the teenagers hung out after band practice and sometimes smoked pot. We were supposed to be up their practicing music and routines.

Sadly the guy who sold me his saxophone and gave me lessons on using it was later killed in Vietnam after joining the Marines. He was three years older than me. He had a Polish name and everyone called him Stash.

Another thing about the Mummers and something I'm not proud to have been a part of but there were no black people and no women in any Mummers organization. Girls were not allowed to join the band. Different times.

Friends Free Library

 

We had two libraries in our neighborhood that were each a few blocks away and an easy walk. One was the regular neighborhood Philadelphia Free Library located in Vernon Park. The Germantown Friends Free Library which was part of the Quaker school in the neighborhood was located a little closer to my home so that was the one I went to as a kid. I really didn't know the difference between the two libraries and had library cards from both of them.

I spent most of my time at the Friends Free Library which had a very good children's area. I have very fond memories of going to this library as a kid and developing my love of books and reading with the help of those wonderful old ladies working there. Eventually that love of books would lead me to a career as both a public librarian and a college librarian. 

Years later I was doing some research on the peace collections Quaker libraries including our Germantown library and discovered that many of those helpful old ladies we loved were convicted felons. As young women many of them were jailed numerous times for anti-war activities during World War I. We never saw their stories in our school history books but the archives at Swarthmore College has extensive resources on the women’s peace movement of WWI.

Piecework

 

The Book List

Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was by Pete Hamill, 1997

Read in July 2019

After reading a novel by Pete Hamill I discovered he was first a journalist. I read his novel Tabloid City last year and really liked his take on New York City. I then found out he has been a journalist in New York for forty years and has worked for many of the news institutions of that city including writing as a columnist for The New York Post, The New York Daily News and the Village Voice. He has also written for Esquire, Vanity Fair and New York. 

This book collects many of his best writings over the years going back to 1970 where he has covered a wide variety of topics including politics, sports, entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues, the art world, New York City and many more subjects. 

Becky and I went up to New York City many times during the late 1970's when we were living in Philadelphia. We saw lots of art at galleries and museums, went to clubs like the Roxy and Danceteria, saw music in places like CBGB's and spent lots of time in the Village especially the restaurants.  This book reminded me of how the city was at that time. We also went regularly over the years from Buffalo on this cheap airlines to the Newark Airport.

Piecework is a interesting collection of his touch-minded provocative work and a travelogue back in time. I found these essays engaging and endlessly fascinating. 

I Could Be So Happy - Reflections Decade 6 Mega Mix

I Could Be So Happy - Reflections Decade 6 Mega Mix. 

The first line from the first song by the Heartless Bastards. Another 8 hour plus collection of indie pop and Americana mega mix put together from several earlier regular mixes from my Reflections series. This music is all from the 6th decade of rock (approximately 2006 - 2016). 

These songs have been combined to flow together nicely during a long road trip or also for just hanging around the house all day. Essentially a collection of sets that work together in the selected order or a random shuffle mode.

Heartless Bastards in the photo.

1. Be So Happy - Heartless Bastards - 2009
2. Whole Lotta Losin' - Monsters Of Folk - 2009
3. Epic - Calexico - 2012
4. Take Me to Church - Hozier - 2014
5. Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2 - Father John Misty - 2012
6. Down By The Water - The Decemberists - 2011
7. Born Alone - Wilco - 2014
8. Red Eyes - The War On Drugs - 2014
9. Dissolve Me - alt - J - 2012
10. Lorelai - Fleet Foxes - 2011
11. A Simple Answer - Grizzly Bear - 2012
12. Simple Song - The Shins - 2012
13. Supernova - Ray LaMontagne - 2014
14. I Don't Want to Let You Down - Sharon Van Etten - 2015
15. Shuggie - Foxygen - 2013
16. If I Wanted Someone - Dawes - 2011
17. I Just Don't Understand - Spoon - 2014
18. Talking Backwards - Real Estate - 2014
19. I Found You - Alabama Shakes - 2012
20. Ones Who Love You - Alvvays - 2014
21. Out In the Way - Beach Fossils & Wild Nothing - 2011
22. Keep in the Dark - Temples - 2014
23. Damaged Goods - Yeasayer - 2012
24. Before Your Very Eyes... - Atoms For Peace - 2013
25. Alive - Empire Of The Sun - 2013
26. Last Dance - Rhye - 2013
27. Song - Sylvan Esso - 2017
28. Keep It Close To Me - Yumi Zouma - 2016
29. Lazy Crossbones - Carla Bozulich - 2014
30. Made My Mind Up - Mikal Cronin - 2015
31. At The Indie Disco - The Divine Comedy - 2010
32. We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire - 2010
33. You as You Were - Shearwater - 2012
34. Body Knows Best - Anya Marina - 2012
35. I Couldn't Sleep - Au Revoir Simone - 2007
36. Requiem - M. Ward - 2006
37. Strange Moon Rising - Smoke Fairies - 2010
38. On And On - Jolie Holland - 2014
39. She Lit A Fire - Lord Huron - 2012
40. Cobbled From Dust - The Acorn - 2010
41. Strangers - Golden Smog - 2006
42. A Century Behind - Will Courtney - 2013
43. Taro - alt - J - 2012
44. Brothers - The War On Drugs - 2011
45. Line of Fire - Junip - 2013
46. Run Cried the Crawling - Agnes Obel - 2013
47. Don't Let The Sun Steal You Away - Bear's Den - 2013
48. Summer Guest - Asgeir - 2013
49. The Sad Sun - Deer Tick - 2010
50. Leave It Up To Me - Lera Lynn - 2014
51. You Give Me More Than Love - Ed Harcourt - 2016
52. Over It - Ages and Ages - 2014
53. Don't Ask Me To Change - The Wild Feathers - 2016
54. At Least For Now - The Posies - 2014
55. My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me - Little Green Cars - 2013
56. Love is Wasted on Lovers - Jessie Baylin - 2012
57. Hello Sunshine - Ethan Johns - 2012
58. I'm On My Way - Yo La Tengo - 2009
59. Black Rain, Black Rain - A. A. Bondy - 2007
60. Raise Her Hands - Wovenhand - 2010
61. Now We're Strangers - Eleni Mandell - 2012
62. On My Own - Whitney - 2016
63. Hold Me All Night - Tim Fite - 2012
64. Move Together - James Bay - 2015
65. Smoke And Sparks - Grant - Lee Phillips - 2016
66. Whatever Happened - Brian Wilson - 2015
67. Is This the Real World - Garland Jeffreys - 2013
68. There's No Tomorrow - Elton John & Leon Russell - 2010
69. Her Mercy - Glen Hansard - 2015
70. I'm Glad I Found You (Orchestral) - Neil Young - 2014
71. Waiting For My Child - Patty Griffin - 2010
72. I Will Love Again - Bat For Lashes - 2016
73. What Is To Be Done? - Stars - 2014
74. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die - David Bowie - 2013
75. Amazing Eyes - Good Old War - 2012
76. Savorin' Your Smile - Miranda Lee Richards - 2009
77. Don't Give Up On Us - Sarah McLachlan - 2010
78. I'm Not the Loving Kind - Mark Lanegan - 2013
79. Fake Roses - The Lone Bellow - 2015
80. It Will Come Back - Hozier - 2014
81. Hush - Bowerbirds - 2012
82. Nothing Else Matters - Patty Larkin - 2013
83. What A Broken Heart Feels Like - Striking Matches - 2015
84. Vaulted Sky - Assembly of Dust - 2013
85. Museum Of Broken Hearts - Chuck Prophet - 2012
86. Downtown Girls - American Aquarium - 2009
87. Waitin' - Caitlin Rose - 2013
88. Even If It Breaks Your Heart - Will Hoge - 2009
89. In Your Dreams - Dark Dark Dark - 2010
90. Say - C Duncan - 2015
91. Another Small Thing In Her Favour - Richard Thompson - 2013
92. In The Long Run - The Staves - 2012
93. All Else Fades - Quiet Arrows - 2015
94. Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough) - Phosphorescent - 2010
95. Tomorrow - Shearwater - 2013
96. Don't Send Me Away - Dawes - 2015
97. Brill Bruisers - The New Pornographers - 2014
98. Apollyon Of Blue Room - Of Montreal - 2015
99. Black Wave - The Donkeys - 2014
100. Tookah - Emiliana Torrini - 2013
101. Mature Themes - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 2012
102. California - EMA - 2011
103. Dust On The Ground - Bombay Bicycle Club - 2009
104. Don't You Evah - Spoon - 2007
105. Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter - 2008
106. Barricade - Interpol - 2010
107. I Can't Hear You - The Dead Weather - 2010
108. Satellite - The Kills - 2011
109. More Troubles - Absentee - 2006
110. M79 - Vampire Weekend - 2008
111. In Context - Field Music - 2007
112. Don't Swallow the Cap - The National - 2013
113. Magic Bullet - Wire - 2013
114. I Don't Want Your Love, (If You Don't Want Me) - Empty Hearts - 2014
115. Night Vision - Tennis - 2014
116. Morning - Au.Ra - 2015
117. Fool - Nadine Shah - 2015
118. Autumn Dawn - Allah - Las - 2016
119. Sky Sounds - Magic Castles - 2014
120. Love Play - School of Seven Bells - 2012
121. I Want To Hold Your Other Hand - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - 2012
122. Circuital - My Morning Jacket - 2011