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This weekend I finally got around to moving all of my music files over to the (no longer) new computer... It's nice having all my music, or much of it, all in one place and easy to access. I'm working on a mix tape of songs with nice fiddle parts... In the mean time, here are ten consecutive songs in the shuffle...

1. "When You Awake" by Bob Dylan and The Band; and what's more the version from Before the Flood with its pretty fiddle part, which track is going right onto the mix tape!
2. "Lime House Blues" by Roy Smeck. Off a lovely mix tape from Petquality, "Pet's Guitar Picks".
3. "The Boys of Blue Hill" from one of my practice tapes. This was a surprise for me -- turns out since I'm storing my practice sessions under the "My Music" folder, Windows Media Player considers them part of its library. Cool!
4. "Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me" by Mississippi John Hurt.
5. "Lonesome Road Blues," by W. Lee O'Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys. The band name sort of says it all...
6. "Egyptian Cream" by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. Song I know vaguely but not too well, by the Egyptians!
7. "King Bolden's Song", by the Louis James String Band. More fodder for the fiddle mix tape...
8. "The Tennessee Stud," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
9. "Chinese Water Python," Robyn Hitchcock.
10. "Simple Twist of Fate" by Jeff Tweedy.

Links below the fold, as I find them...

• Here is Django's performance of "Lime House Blues"
• the Tweedy performance of "Simple Twist" comes from Carnival Saloon's mix tape
• The Louis James String Band tune is on the record of the Mobile Strugglers and the Louis James String Band, which I recommend highly.
• "Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me" by Mississippi John Hurt. I don't think I have heard this song even once, which surprises me. It is a fun tune. An amazing number of amateur covers of this song can be found searching the web; some of them are very well done.
• "Lonesome Road Blues" is available on Volume IV of Western Swing Chronicles.
• "Egyptian Cream" is on Gotta Let This Hen Out; but the version I was listening to is from Give it to the Thoth Boys.
• "Tennessee Stud" is a Johnny Cash song; this version is from Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which should be in everybody's music collection. Some other nice versions (including Doc Watson's, who plays guitar in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version) are on YouTube.
• a decent cover of "Chinese Water Python."

posted morning of Monday, May 31st, 2010
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"Chinese Water Python," Robyn Hitchcock.

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one of my favorites to play.

i can't get the middle part, but i love playing the beginning and end.

posted afternoon of May 31st, 2010 by cleek

Never tried it... it does sound like it would be fun, though.

posted afternoon of May 31st, 2010 by Jeremy

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