01) Adam Torres - I Came To Sing The Song 00:00 02) Melaena Cadiz - Last Night In My Dream 04:23 03) Emmy The Great - Swimming Pool 08:13 04) Trapo - Speed 12:16 05) Bell Gardens - Darker Side Of Sunshine 16:07 06) Agnes Obel - Familiar 21:53 07) Rosie Carney - Antidote 25:46 08) Mutual Benefit - Advanced Falconry 30:29 09) Charlie Cunningham - An Opening 35:34 10) Luluc - Small Window 39:19 11) The Marcus King Band - I Won't Be Here 42:58 12) GEMS - All I Ever 46:49 13) Seryn - Ivory Black 51:12 14) Christopher Paul Stelling - Destitute 55:46
After I was reminded of this year's SXSW get-together and listened to the 100 songs posted online by NPR to celebrate it, I looked for prior years' co...
01) Adam Torres - I Came To Sing The Song 00:00 02) Melaena Cadiz - Last Night In My Dream 04:23 03) Emmy The Great - Swimming Pool 08:13 04) Trapo - Speed 12:16 05) Bell Gardens - Darker Side Of Sunshine 16:07 06) Agnes Obel - Familiar 21:53 07) Rosie Carney - Antidote 25:46 08) Mutual Benefit - Advanced Falconry 30:29 09) Charlie Cunningham - An Opening 35:34 10) Luluc - Small Window 39:19 11) The Marcus King Band - I Won't Be Here 42:58 12) GEMS - All I Ever 46:49 13) Seryn - Ivory Black 51:12 14) Christopher Paul Stelling - Destitute 55:46
After I was reminded of this year's SXSW get-together and listened to the 100 songs posted online by NPR to celebrate it, I looked for prior years' collections and found 2014-2017 were still available, which was all the encouragement I needed to add a few more sets focused on this annual event as companions to the original "Years of Cool" set. Selections from this huge amount of material fell into three loosely-themed sets, based around the vibes of longing, love and liberty. This is the LONGING set.
“Loneliness” was the original concept, but that’s really just about other human/animal companionship, whereas you could be LONGING for so many things, including company, but also money, culture, respect, political stability, an economy that finds a niche for every willing participant.... You get me.
Great work here from Adam Torres and Christopher Paul Stelling in particular, but this is just 14 out of 400 tracks, which I encourage you to check out for yourselves.