Welcome to 2008

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Ignore for the moment that we are well into 2008! I want to write about a project I do every new years: Diary Tunes.

Dairy Tunes is a mix cd trading club I started back in 2002. The idea is to create a mix cd that represents the past year of your life - sort of like an audio time capsule, and any music is fair game.

I've been trading for 6 years now, so I have quite the collection! Most of the Diary Tunes members are cartoonist friends, so I also get the benefit of having a nice collection of album art.



Here's my cover for my 2007 mix cd. The title is a lyric from a Byrds song (when Gram Parsons was in the line-up). Several of the songs on my cd are about winter (we've had a tough one in Vermont this year).







Here’s my line-up!

1. Out on the Weekend - Neil Young
2. Shisheler - The Mogador Band
3. The Butcher’s Boy - Buell Kazee
4. America - Simon & Garfunkel
5. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
6. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues - Bob Dylan
7. This Place is a Prison - The Postal Service
8. Van Occupanther – Midlake
9. Don’t Talk To Strangers - Chris Gaylord
10. 36-24-36 - Violent Femmes
11. Rolling Log Blues - Buffy Sainte-Marie
12. Ahlof Bi Houbbi Ya Min – Amaya
13. You Ain’t Goin Nowhere - The Byrds
14. One More Hour - Sleater-Kinney
15. Don’t Be Upset - Jeffrey & Jack Lewis
16. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
17. You Are My Flower - The Carter Family
18. Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
19. My Back Pages - Po!
20. Blue Eyes - Uncle Tupelo
21. Evergreen - Roy Orbison