Abubilla Music

Mix Tape Memories

Written by Seattle - Winky

Hey all-

when last spotted we were driving across country from california to vermont. 3700 miles total! Then we tacked on another 2400 just cruising around New England and New York for the month of may. . . before we left I made many mixed CDs to listen and sing along too. Sad to confess I just learned how to do that in 2010! It brought me back to the college days of putting the needle on the scratchy record then racing to press the record button on the tape deck. Remember?

Nowadays you are clicking and dragging and sliding songs up and down a playlist before burning the CD…and our grandkids are going to hoot with laughter at how old fashioned that approach was “back in the day”.

One entertaining thing about the windows media program I use (because it came with the computer so there it was and there i was) is that all the artists are listed by their first names. So the CDs I have lined up in the cabinet in no way correspond to the artists lined up in my computer. I did not know, for instance, that I do not have one single artist whose first name begins with A. Who would have thunk?

For whatever reason, my favorite of the CDs I made for the trip was the J-M cd. Still listen to that one over and over and still remember the sights of Memphis, West Virginia or Baltimore as certain songs come on. It starts with Jack Johnson and Jackson Browne, moves on to Jim Croce, Joan Armatrading and Lyle Lovett, then closes out with Little feat, Michelle Shocked and Mark Knopfler.

In a nod to recognizing that music has been made in the past 2 years (!) I came home and added “The Magpies” to the J-M list. They were the band we heard live in Memphis one night on our trip. Check out their album “Strangers”.