This mix has tracks that some of you might not agree with and some I don’t even agree with but this is not my day. This is Veteran’s Day and it’s a day to put politics aside and salute those who keep us free. If you find yourself disagreeing with a song or two on here then suck it up. No politics are welcome on this post. Ever.

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Here is your Monday Mixtape folks…

This one is sort of a broken hearts with a youthful outlook rather than the cynical outlook I tend to have. I couldn’t pull off the whole thing with youthful optimism on loss and broken heart thing but it’ll do for now and it’s still better than most of my cynicism. I did get to pull out some of my favorite artists that I have been ignoring lately and that makes me pretty happy. Although I think I see a theme in the compilations that could go away. I promise I am not as depressed as these make me out to be. Next week I’ll shoot for a happy tape…Maybe not…

As an aside: I am running out of ideas for the covers so I have resorted to cool pics of the kids for the moment. Maybe I’ll come up something inspired for next weeks compilation.

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This is one of those mixes where I heard a song and wanted to build around it. It ended up being pretty short but good listening nonetheless. It’s also one of three that I am moving here instead of having it’s own subdomain…

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I think we all have fears that we won’t own up to and sometimes that we don’t even admit to ourselves. I tried to grab some of those themes and bring that in the songs on this mix. I guess I did alright for the most part. Hope you enjoyed this one.

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This is one I made before I started using mixwidget (the cool tape thing that plays the compilations) and posted on facebook. I am in the process of converting all of the ones I did back then to the neat-o widgety thing since it lets other people embed them other places and to top it off looks really cool.

So there you have it. A couple of the bands on here aren’t around anymore. They were bands that friends of mine played in so there’s some history on this one but for the most part it was put together just to share the alt country genre with a few friends on facebook.

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Mondays suck! No two ways around it. For instance I finally went back to Muxtape and read the full story of why it’s dead and not coming back like it was. I can imagine most people are not having much fun today. So let me brighten up your day just a little bit. Get your ass over to Lucero‘s Site and pick the Ben Nichols solo EP. It’s a damn shame it’s an EP but the price is right and you get immediate access to a DRM free mp3 download and as a bonus you get to support one of the best bands I know.

Apparently the album is based Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy which I am now reading. So for more fun drop by Amazon and grab a copy of the book to read. I can’t place my stamp of approval on it just yet as I am barely done with the first chapter but it hasn’t made me want to put it down just yet.

For those who already love Lucero I feel I must warn you that it’s not a Lucero album. It is a Ben Nichols album and I am amazed by it, as I always am with Ben. I will be seeing Ben tonight at The Revival Tour (linked in my last post) and then it’s on to Dallas to install a sixteen node cluster and hopefully have dinner with a friend I haven’t see in a while. I’ll try to post from the road but no promises. It’s been hard to slow things down and post these days.