2. (For Nancy) The Other Side Of The Sky

Here is the second in my series of individual mixes for friends. For my friend Nancy, I have gone with a mix of old and contemporary female vocalists and writers.

01 - Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
02 - Astrud Gilberto - A Certain Sadness
03 - Bonnie Raitt - God Was In The Water
04 - Cyndi Lauper - early In The Morning
05 - Duffy - Hard For The Heart
06 - Etta James - Don't Cry Baby
07 - EBTG - Another Bridge
08 - Morcheeba - The Sea
09 - Florence & The Machine -Between Two Lungs
10 - Goldfrapp - Believer
11 - Jefferson Airship - Someone To Love
12 - Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
13 - Joni Mitchell - Black Crow
14 - Koko Taylor - Gonna Buy Me A Mule
15 - Laura Nyro - Let It Be Me
16 - Mavis Staples - Down In Mississippi
17 - Rumer - Aretha
18 - Tracey Chapman - Material World
19 - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days & 100 Nights
20 - Susan Tedeschi - Learning The Hard Way

I don't have too much to say about this mix, a collection of favorite female vocalists and writers from today and yesterday. There are a few things to be said though. The Rumer track, "Aretha", is probably my favorite original song of 2010, even though I only heard it for the first time on the last day of that year, courtesy of the Jools Holland show from the UK. Rumer has an incredible voice, somewhere between Feist and Karen Carpenter, which to my warped mind is a fantastic combination. There is a smattering of all time favorites too, particularly the Morcheeba classic, "The Sea" which usually is there or thereabouts in my constantly evolving all time top twenty tracks. A male voice does have the impertinence to chime in on the Cyndi Lauper track, but as it is BB King, I will allow it. One of the disappointments of 2010 for me was that two albums I was really looking forward to, the second albums by Duffy and also Sharon Jones were, for me, deeply flawed. I have included the one Duffy track I like from the new CD, as well as my favorite cut from Sharon Jones first album. Nancy gets a sendspace link for this one, but if anyone else wants one, they have to answer a simple question. Who whispered the title of this mix at the beginning of what song, and who was he quoting. That's it!