Mixed Tape: Lake Charles

When we started this trip, we greedily asked our pals to play a road trip game with us. In return for a mixed tape destination in their mind, we’d wait to play on our ipod until we got to that place and snap a few pics. Several friends sent on cds and tips, but only T made a mixed tape. He called it Nacogdoches. “That’s in East Texas, not far from the border,” Lucinda Williams drawls.

Here’s his mixed tape:

Tell Me Twice	Eleni Mandell
The Crane Wife 3	The Decemberists
Princess On The Porch	Josh Rouse
Brighter Than Sunshine	Aqualung
The Bees At Nite	Tim Seely
Beautiful and Light	Tunng
Gulf Shores	Bonnie “Prince” Billy
That Girl from Brownsville Texas	Jim White
All I’m Thinkin’ About	Bruce Springsteen
Remember the Mountain Bed	Wilco
Everybody Move It	Teddy Thompson
That Kind of Blue	Forest Sun
Lake Charles	Lucinda Williams
Las Rosas Sauvages	Kimmie Rhodes
Shine	Daniel Lanois
Maybe You’re Right	Barenaked Ladies
Pilgrim Highway	Mark Erelli

Besides this mixed tape, which we greatly enjoy, Bob Dylan’s Modern Times, Damien Juardo’s Now I am in Your Shadow, Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, and all of Mark Erelli’s cd’s are finding heavy rotation in our car when I drive. Death Cab still does wonders for Vic when he is driving.

He liked to tell everyone he was from Lake Charles