The mix you have here is a collaboration between Doowad and Avocado Rabbit, swapping songs back and forth between St. Louis and Knoxville (Tennessee) as if these two guys were sitting on the back porch remembering tunes that they liked. Ain’t the Internet grand!
They’ve titled this mix “The Conversation,” which was also the title of one of Francis Ford Coppola’s lesser known films. It starred Gene Hackman as a nerdy master eavesdropper. Coppola made it after “The Godfather” had propelled him to super-director status, but this was a personal film he had wanted to make for some time, and for which he wrote the screenplay. He has said it was something of an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 arty “Blowup,” with its themes of privacy and its invasion creating a psychological thriller. This film is a crisp illustration of the old saying about judging books by covers. You think you know what is going on, but, like our reclusive anti –hero - Harry Caul - you slowly begin to doubt the evidence of your own eyes and ears. Finally, it dawns on you that you have completely misjudged the situation, the participants---and maybe, just a bit, your own reason.
That was Avocado Rabbit’s approach to the alt-dj process. It was a little uncomfortable at first, having another person become part of the building of a mix. He figured he would either love it or hate but there was no way he could be neutral. And Rabbit did, in fact, love it, loved the surprise of not knowing what song would come next and being able to think afterwards “Oh, yeah, that fits.”
The veteran half of the combo, Doowad, states he’s just a mixer who cain't say no to an alt-dj. “This particular collaboration really went smoothly, so much so that we were basically just conversing back and forth with song titles and/or sentiment.”
Francis de la Rochefoucauld neatly sums up what our intrepid pair of mixers were feeling: “To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
Disk 1
1. Celeste Holm – I Cain’t Say No
2. Delbert McClinton – One of the Fortunate Few
3. Dr. John – Dis, Dat or D'udda
4. Graham Parker – Anything For A Laugh
5. John Hiatt – Woman Sawed In Half
6. Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces
7. The Flying Burrito Brothers – Together Again
8. Lauryn Hill with D'Angelo – Nothing Even Matters
9. Ray Charles – Yes, Indeed!
10. Lucky Peterson – Remember The Day
11. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King – Ask Me No Questions
12. Randy Newman – Big Hat No Cattle
13. Doug Sahm – Get A Life
14. Spearhead – Yes, I Will
15. O.V. Wright – I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled or Crazy
16. Buddy Miller – Worry Too Much
17. Mary Weiss – Stop and Think It Over
18. The Raconteurs – Steady As She Goes
19. John Hartford – I Won't Know Why I Went Till After I Get Back
20. Jason Boland & The Stragglers – If I Ever Get Back To Oklahoma
Disk 2
1. Meredith Brooks – It Don’t Get Better
2. Fiona Apple – Oh, Well
3. Willy Porter – Angry Words
4. Richard Thompson – Keep Your Distance
5. Kathleen Edwards – Back To Me
6. Emmylou Harris – Where Will I Be
7. Greg Brown – Cold + Dark + Wet
8. James McMurtry – Poor Lost Soul
9. Railroad Earth – Hard Livin'
10. Joe Ely – Honky Tonkin' [live]
11. ZZ Top – Pincushion
12. Frank Zappa – Stick It Out
13. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Androgynous
14. Lou Reed – Satellite of Love
15. Missy Elliot featuring Ginuwine – Friendly Skies
16. Astrud Gilberto – Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
17. Train – Drops of Jupiter
18. David Bowie – Space Oddity
19. Willie Nelson – There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone
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