I started collecting songs for this mix back in November - adding and deleting as the months went by. Songs came and went - but only the best survived repeated listenings and aural scrutiny. It's mostly new stuff - with a a smattering of recents. The base is Americana with international inflluences from South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey and Tennseess (yes - Tennessee feels like it could be a foreign country sometimes) woven in. I finally culled this mix down to 14 songs in recent days - and I hope anyone listening enjoys each and every one of them.
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John Leventhal / That's All I Know About Arkansas
I LOVE this song. From John Leventhal's first album (Rumble Strip) at the ripe age of 71 - even though he has been playing, producing, writing and recording music for his entire life - and winning 6 Grammies along the way. This song has some of THE tastiest guitar playing I have ever heard - and the drumming is right behind it. Oh....and he sings this song with his wife (and co-writer), Rosanne Cash - recorded during the pandemic in their home studio in NYC.
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Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955 in Memphis, Tennesee) is an American singer and songwriter. She is oldest daughter of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, born shortly before the release of her father's first single. She is also the stepdaughter of June Carter Cash and the stepsister of country singer Carlene Carter. Cash released her first single in 1979, a duet with Bobby Bare called "We Don't Need No Memories Hangin' 'Round". Two years later, she had her first country No. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Mici & Sun-EL Musician / Respond
There isn't much information out there about Mici - but Sun-EL has been a DJ and music producer on the South African scene for years and made a previous appearance on Burnmix 142 (3/22).
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Mark Knopfler / Two Pairs of Hands
Mark Knopfler's distinctive guitar style and sound has been consistent since his rise to fame with Dire Straits and "Sultans of Swing". I remember listening to that song on the radio while stripping plaster out of our house in 1978. He's never made a Burnmix - until now.
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Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. He was the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977. He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced nine solo albums and, as with his previous band, produced many hit songs. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Olivia Dean & Leon Bridges / The Hardest Part
The studio version of this tune is nice enough - but when Ms. Dean (25) teams up with Leon Bridges for the live video version, it's off the charts. Accompanied by only a base and keyboard, their voices sweep and soar in stunning fashion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujjf3nnIUCQ
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Nilufer Yanya / Like I Say: I runaway
This was the last song added and one I can't stop listening to. She's a London-based artist, but the Turkish influence in her music is strong.
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T Bone Burnett / Waiting For You
T Bone Burnett (76) is another master of all trades - producer, artist, songwriter, musician - and has won countless Grammy awards. Love the echo of a harmony by Lucius.
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Lucius is a five piece indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York formed in 2011. The band consists of Jess Wolfe (lead vocals and synth), Holly Laessig (lead vocals and keys), Dan Molad (drums and vocals), Peter Lalish (guitar and vocals) and Andrew Burri (guitar, drums, vocals) "Luscious, luminous, lilting lullabies" is how the New York Times describes songs by Lucius, a five-piece band from Brooklyn, NY. At the center of Lucius are the "alluring and magnetic" (Seventeen) singers-in-unison, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Asake / Lonely At The Top
Asake is a very popular singer in Nigeria - and this song is in a combination of Yoruba, a primarily Nigerian language, and English. Great production and background vocals.
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Ahmed Ololade (born 13 January 1995), known professionally as Asake, is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer and songwriter. He is signed to YBNL Nation and has an exclusive Distribution Deal with EMPIRE. His stage name "Asake" is his mother's name. Asake often uses up-tempo AfroFusion and Amapiano styled in production. Some listeners have also described his style as close to AfroFuji / Afrobeats due to his singing in Yoruba and the use of slang in his songs. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sarah Jarosz / Columbus & 89th
The first song I chose for this mix - and couldn't let it go even when Saunders put a song on her last mix from the same album, Her Turners Falls show this week has been sold out for months.
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Sarah Jarosz (born 23 May 1991 in Austin, Texas) is an American alt-country musician and singer-songwriter from Texas. Her first CD, Song Up in Her Head, was released in 2009, with her tune "Mansinneedof" nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Country Instrumental Performance. Her second album, Follow Me Down, was released in 2011. Her third album, Build Me Up from Bones, was released on September 24, 2013 through Sugar Hill Records. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Bonny Light Horseman / I Know You Know
BLH still holds the record for having the same song - Deep In Love - included on three Burmnixes 18 months apart. From their new album.
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Bonny Light Horseman is a three-piece band comprising Fruit Bats’ frontman Eric D. Johnson, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and guitarist Josh Kaufman. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Rayland Baxter / Strange American Dream
This song kept falling out of contention, then back in again. I had to keep it. Love the lyrical imagery - and the bridge that seems go to some completely unexpected places before resolving back into a Beatle-esque finale.
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Rayland Baxter (stylized as rayLand Baxter) is an American alternative country musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently signed to ATO Records. Baxter is the son of musician Bucky Baxter. It’s hard to pinpoint the moment that songs are born, the day casual hummers become singers or scribblers become songwriters. Rayland Baxter certainly can’t, and he wouldn’t want to. Though he grew up in Nashville to the sounds of his father’s pedal steel, he didn’t dream of being a rock star. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Arooj Aftab / Raat Ki Rani
Ms. Aftab was the first Pakistani to ever win a Grammy in 2022 - a song (Mohabbat) included in a couple of our Burnmixes. She was born in Pakistan, but now resides in NYC by way of Berklee College of Music. Her voice is haunting - and "raat ki rani" is a night blooming jasmine.
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An aspiring young musician from Lahore, Pakistan, Arooj Aftab is currently pursuing a degree in Music Production and Engineering at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. Arooj hopes that four years of intense music study will allow her to develop her passion and talent and grant her the hands-on experience she needs. Arooj is also very sensitive to global issues. She speaks openly for betterment of social issues in her country and around the world. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Carly Pearce / Hummingbird
I kept thinking I'd tire of this song. Hasn't happened. And goes to show that winning a bunch of CMA awards brings with it the best production, musicians and songwriters Nashville has to offer.
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Carly Cristyne Pearce (born April 24, 1990) is an American country music singer. She is signed to Big Machine Records, and has released one album and charted two singles within the top 40 of Country Airplay. Career Carly Pearce was born in Taylor Mill, Kentucky. She dropped out of school when she was 16 and moved to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in order to perform at Dollywood five times a week, in addition to contributing to bluegrass music compilation albums. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Nikosazana Daughter / Amaphutha
A South African masterpiece - sung in Zulu.
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The Tennessee Freedom Singers / Tennessee Rise
This "We Are the World" look-alike was organized to raise money for Gloria Johnson's run for one of the US Senate seats from Tennessee. Great song - and performances from Allison Russell (the organizer), Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, Emmy Lou Harris, Brandi Carlisle and about 20 plus others.
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The Tennessee Freedom Singers is an American "supergroup" featuring Brittany Howard, Allison Russell, Maren Morris, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Fancy Hagood, and Devon Gilfillian. Read more on Last.fm more...
