Here’s a mix of songs I’ve had on repeat during these rainy Spring days. I was very touched by the tragic story of Jackson C. Frank so this collection is more or less an extended tribute to perhaps the most tragic figure of the 60’s folk movement.

“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscadine, spine-cabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek.”

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i. I want to be alone (dialogue) - Jackson C. Frank

ii. Emerald bikini - Ennio Morricone

iii. Wailing of the willow - Harry Nilsson

iv. Too far gone - Emmylou Harris

v. O.K. - Jon Brion

vi. Lullabye - Loudon Wainwright III

vii. Kindelsberg - Hauschka

viii. Magic window - Boards of Canada