Somebody Likes It

Charlie Martin's pandemic experience has been much like the rest of ours, until it wasn't.

So let's just start with the obvious: we don't know where the scarf is.

The one where we finally come out of lockdown and talk about some of our favorites from 2020 and 2021.

After a couple of months hiatus, it's time to get back into things and what better way than with another mixtape show. We discuss some of our favorite tracks of 2019.

It can be difficult to recall on occasion that Willie Nelson is more than just the proverbial Kevin Bacon of country music.

Recorded November 20, 2019

We ran into an interesting set of circumstances with Barrie and their initial release Happy To Be Here, from the SXSW set Mark and I caught in a Mezcal bar (with a local weatherman) to the fact that through dumb luck they came through Austin literally the night before recording, and Mark and I cornered Barrie (the person this time, not the band) to ask her a few questions about their music and her songs.

For our Labor Day Mixtape Show, we decided (cleverly? You decide-) that we'd bring to bear songs specifically about Work, Birth (or Babies) and/or British Parliament (though that Labour has a U in it).

At some point during the week before we laid down this episode, one of us circulated a Honda scooter ad starring Miles Davis from the 1980s. If you've ever seen it, it's more or less...terrifying, which is a helluva thing to accuse of a Honda scooter commercial from the 1980s.

In 1995, Spacehog released a great song called In The Meantime. Let's not forget that, shall we?

So to be completely fair (and you'll notice this straightaway), there's an elephant in the room in this episode. We ran into a weird situation - Mark actually left his usual recording array at home accidentally, and we decided to soldier on rather than go home and get it.