Hey Friends! It is once again time for a Mixtape Monday where I dive into some of my favorite songs and blend them together into a custom made mix just for you my friends. As a quintessential GenXer I was a producer and consumer of the artform known as the Mixtape. It was so much more than just putting a number of your favorite songs on a single tape for convenience. I dug more into the flow of a mix and how the songs blended together to produce something greater than any of the parts.
Now I am doing this same process but instead presenting it in Spotify and YouTube Playlist forms for your pleasure. I am also creating custom album art for each mixtape, which is super pretentious and nonsensical but would you expect anything else? This is the second edition of this feature so here is hoping I don’t get distracted and can keep this up!
Mellowcore Cantriping
I have to be honest, I am not entirely certain I would explain the inspiration here. Effectively I built this entire mix for the sole purpose of building up to the last song. Everything leading up to that is just there more or less to prime the pump for the optimal delivery of what is bittersweet musical perfection. There will always be mystery shrouding the death of Jeff Buckley, but Grace the album released shortly before his death is sublime and I wish we would have had enough time to get more from him. The problem is that Last Goodbye is a weird genre bending song that took a very special mix tape to do it justice. I hope that I did at that.
