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It’s finals week at Cornell. Everyone has gone their separate ways, scuttling off to some obscure corner of campus in an effort to devour an entire semester’s worth of knowledge in an afternoon. They’ve all vanished. So, that’s the theme for this week’s mixtape: being alone. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s inevitable that certain times in life, it’s going to be just you and yourself. And there’s a certain power that comes from solitude, where you have a chance to assess yourself. Where you are. Where you want to be. And so on. So this week I’ve put together a ragtag mix of people making music by themselves. In an effort to draw away from the cliched acoustic guitar sound, I’ve tossed in some electric cello (Ben Sollee, Yo-Yo Ma), piano (Richard Swift), tabla (Ravi Shankar), and even some jaded beat poet (Allen Ginsberg). Enjoy.
In This Week’s Mixtape
01. A Change Is Gonna Come // Ben Sollee
02. The Songs of National Freedom // Richard Swift
03. Dad // Keith John Adams
04. Do We Not Live In Dreams? // Franz Nicolay
05. Skinny Love // Bon Iver
06. The Gardner // The Tallest Man On Earth
07. Tabla Solo In Ekial // Ravi Shankar
08. Overkill // Colin Hay
09. New Romantic // Laura Marling
10. Fogtown // Michelle Shocked
11. Fuck It, I Love You // Malcolm Middleton
12. Look At Me // John Lennon
13. Big Rock Candy Mountain // Harry McClintock
14. America // Allen Ginsberg
15. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major // Yo-Yo Ma
16. Such Great Heights // Iron and Wine
17. Ripchord // Rilo Kiley
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