Mixtape #125: Life is a grift, old chum

Songs for Portrait of a Body (In Pieces)

Side A

1. Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones
2. Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan
3. Can’t Find My Way Home by Blind Faith
4. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ by The Velvet Underground
5. America by Simon & Garfunkel

Side B

6. Girl from the North Country by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash
7. Helplessly Hoping by Crosby, Stills & Nash
8. The Wind by Cat Stevens
9. Strangers by The Kinks
10. Shelter from the Storm by Bob Dylan

Spotify

Liner notes

This playlist was inspired by a character in the May chapters of my serialized novel, Portrait of a Body (In Pieces). Fern is a fifty something artist with excellent taste and a killer vinyl collection. And she’s always playing music. Headphones simply won’t do:

“It has to bounce off the walls, she says. You have to feel it.”

So turn on the speakers, crank up the volume, and enjoy some sublime sounds in the afternoon sun.

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See you in June,

Dan