Tim Dunlop with a recent mix:


Another great jazzy type one from Tim Sterne. (His blog)

And two more of my own:

Jazz Vocals Vol. 2:

Various Singer-Songwriters. Mostly dusty country/folk types but not all. such an exhausting genre I just slapped stuff together because otherwise I would spend days on it.

Will update with notes later. Updated with notes.

Here is an 8tracks of selections from the list:

Another 8tracks. Wine songs.

Why is The Wine (Sweeter on the Other Side) -- Eddie Floyd
Drinkin' C V Wine -- Howlin' Wolf
Days of Wine and Roses -- Tony Bennett and Bill Evans
Loud Music and Strong Wine -- Justin Trevino
Strawberry Wine -- The Band
Wine, Wine, Wine -- Dale Watson
Little Glass of Wine -- The Stanley Brothers
Elderberry Wine -- Elton John
Champagne and Wine -- Otis Redding
Sweet Wine -- Cream
Dying on Sorrows WIne -- Emmylou Harris and Carl Jackson
Yesterday's WIne -- George Jones and Merle Haggard
Blood Red Wine -- Rolling Stones
He Turned the Water Into Wine -- Johnny Cash

New 8tracks:

Slash from Guns and Roses - I See Hawks in LA
There Goes Your Corpse Again - Deadly Snakes
Get Up Jake - Deadstring Brothers
Drop Me Down - Tres Chicas
I Bought a Bottle - Rancho Deluxe
When the Saints Go Marchin' In - South Filthy
Confidence Man - Oakley Hall
Carolina Jasmine - Maplewood
Mornday Morning, Echo Park - The Lisa Marr Experiment
Crucify Your Mind - Rodriguez
The Godspell According to A.A Newcombe - Brian Jonestown Experiment
John Brown - Tea Leaf Green
Eyes Lock'n' Steel - Oakley Hall
You Look Like the Devil - Deadstring Brothers

I volunteered to roadtest the new beta 8tracks uploader and it's the bees knees. So simple is it, I knocked up three playlists just now to try it out. You can listen embedded here or go to the page at 8tracks by clicking the titles.

Classic(ish) country:

Merle Haggard; Donnie Fritts; Waylon Jennings; Robbie Fulks; Lynn Anderson; Loretta Lynn; Daryle Singletary; Moot Davis; Merle Haggard & George Jones; Jerry Lee Lewis; Johnny Cash; Dwight Yoakam; New Riders of the Purple Sage, Faron Young.
Old Time Gospel:

Indian Bottom Association; Washington Phillips; Wynona Carr; Sam Cooke; Carrie Smith; Horton Barker; Old Regular Baptists; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Rev. F. W McGee; Rev. Sister Mary Nelson; Mavis Staples.

Soul Jazz (mostly):

Babatunde Lea; Spanky Wilson and the Quantic Soul Orchestra; Jazz Co-Op; Shirley Scott; David Murray Black Saint Quartet w/ Cassandra Wilson; Cannonball Adderley; Jimmy McGriff & Groove Holmes; Sun Ra; Marlena Shaw; Ray Brown Trio; King Curtis; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis;Robert Rodriguez, Ed Calle And Steve Turre.

A bit of soothing weekend music, via my 8tracks jazz vocal mix. I'm doing some country ones too, stay tuned.

My new 8tracks mix of songs by people called Otis.

A selection of songs is up on 8tracks. Full list over the fold.

So my beloved Muxtape is off line, whether by RIAA fiat or money troubles or both or whatever, I know not. That news kinda sucked although it was not unexpected, being and how the illegality of it was more or less blindingly obvious.

But a great idea and great for the music industry whether it knows it or not. But hark! In the dust of Muxtape, a new service launched called 8tracks which claims to do the same thing but -- gasp! -- legally. I've seen it called "Stracks" too, but I think the squiggly thing is offically an 8. I've signed up but haven't made a mux-er, a ... mix yet. There seem to be more restrictions that with muxtape -- you can't see the whole list before listening for instance -- which are presumably to keep it within the legal requirements. It does look like you can officially create multiple mixes and have them all up at the same time. Which is good, although I was kinda digging the zen-like process of destroying your mux before you could create a new one.

I'm encouraged that it looks uncluttered and simple, but also adds some functions muxtapes lacked -- I like the simplicity of "following" a user and also the ability to add comments to mixes. Will try and maybe get one up tonight.

Update: Did my first 8tracks mix. Painless process and one improvement on Muxtape is you can queue up all your songs to upload rather than have to do them one by one.