This is a mix that I actually have been working on for several weeks. I started it before I had the idea for volume 17, which I threw together in one afternoon after having the idea. This mix represents a broad spectrum of the music I've been listening to the last six months or so. There is quite a bit of music that is me digitizing old vinyl records this past year. There are several tracks from 78s.
Another interesting track from a record I thought I'd share the background to is the Doug Kershaw track. This past month I decided I was going to digitize a bunch of records that I had together in a box in my record room vaguely under folk music. Now the things in that box aren't all really folk music, but they were sort of unclassifiable, or to be honest I just hadn't listened to the records closely enough to know where they should be filed. There are few tracks from that box on this mix. The last track with is some steel drumming music. I had some records by Guela Gill that I digitized as well and one track "La Mer, L'Amour Et La Mort" shows up on here. In that box was a record by Doug Kershaw. I digitized that record and within the week a friend of mine recommended the "Cocaine and Rhinestones" podcast which is a podcast about the history of country music. I was super excited to see that there was an episode in the first season dedicated to Doug and his brother Rusty. So that album that I had just digitized because I liked it and found it really interesting suddenly got really, really interesting after listening to the podcast. This album that I had thrown in with other folk and world music because I think I had just thought it must be a "Cajun" record turned out to be much more than that. That is a long way to say, the record was great and that is why I put "Diggy Diggy Lo" on this mix.
You'll also see quite few tracks from the 60s and that is because I am still working my way through that 1001 albums to hear before you die list and so there are some tracks from those albums.
There are also some newer tracks of things that I've been into or have come across and stood out to me in 2021. I made an insert for this as if this could go onto a CD, but to be honest the mix runs closer to two hours and so this would never fit onto a CD. I guess I just like doing the format. So as always, enjoy!
m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 18 (Broken into 33 tracks)
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 181
Password - SAPMUSIC2021
