The Shuffle 15

Okay, you know I'm a sucker for music games like this. My friends Caitlin and Jeff posted the game on Facebook— "15 Songs Shuffled from my iPod." Here's how you play:

1. Turn on your MP3 player.
2. Go to "shuffle" songs mode.
3. Write down the first 15 songs that come up— song title and artist— NO editing/cheating, no matter how embarrassing.
4. Choose 25 (or so) people to share your results with. In Facebook, you can "tag" those people, but as you can see, I'm just blogging for the whole world to see!

Feel free to "friend" me on Facebook if you want to join my daily insanity.

1. Bemsha Swing Steve Lacy and Gil Evans That’s the Way I Feel Now: Tribute to Thelonious Monk 2. Darkness on the Face of the Earth Willie Nelson Teatro 3. Baby, It’s Cold Outside Ella Fitzgerald & Louie Armstrong Ella and Her Fellas 4. Sirata Habib Koite Mali to Memphis 5. Casey Jones Dave Van Ronk Somebody Else, Not Me 6. Drift Away Dobie Gray 1970's R&B Classics 7. Right, Wrong, Or Ready Karen Dalton It’s So Hard To Tell You Who’s Going to Love You the Best 8. These Days Nico Chelsea Girl 9. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Bob Dylan Bringing in All Back Home 10. Shake Your Hips Slim Harpo Best of Slim Harpo 11. It Ain’t Me, Babe Joan Baez and Bob Dylan Folk Duets 12. Lazy Bones Jackie Mittoo Keep on Dancing 13. Ode to Billy Joe Ellen McIlwaine Up from the Skies 14. You Are My Sunshine George Russell Sextet The Outer View 15. We’re Desperate X Wild Gift

Notes:

I have a bazillion songs, so this list was full of surprises for me— and "long time no hear's!"

I burst out laughing at Dobie Gray's old hit, which is definitely the "hook" of this whole set. Now I can't get it out of my head.

The song I actually listen to the MOST on this list? "We're Desperate," by a landslide.

Most transcendent song on this list, that you probably never heard of: the jazz version of "You are My Sunshine"

My all-time favorite artist who didn't make the big-time: Ellen McIlwaine. I know you will fall in love with her when you hear the tidbit of "Billie Joe." She wrote with Jimi Hendrix, she's the daughter of missionaries, she was one of the first women in the 70s to just tear up an electric guitar.

Jackie Mittoo is here because of Professor Tom, who reported on our Mary Kay LeTourneau disco night! He is "all Mittoo, all the time."

"Ella and Her Fellas" is not on CD, it never even made it to tape cassette. I have it on vinyl and converted it. It is an awesome record of Ella singing with some of her favorite men. My Amazon pick is a close cousin.

I like it when Joani and Bobby get all sloppy.