After a few breakfast beers accompanied by a plate of the finest Wisconsin cheese, crackers and summer sausage that money can buy, it was time for Nick, Ross, Kurt and Charlie to begin their journey back to civilization. I was incredibly excited to live alone in the cabin, however, watching them pull out of the driveway filled me with the same melancholy and "Wisco withdrawl" typically felt when actually leaving the cabin. It was the same feeling that I remember having for the first time as a child when my cousins from Texas, whom I only have the chance to see every few years, left Chicago to return home. I suppose its the feeling you experience when someone that you love departs, especially after one of them unexpectedly asks you to stand up in their wedding this fall.
I immediately cleaned up the tornado that ripped through the cabin over the weekend and openened all of the windows to alleviate the dude stink. Afterwards, I finished putting together soulstice, a soul and funk mix that I recorded a few days ago. Anticipating a cold journey up north with bountiful pond hockey access, I've instead found it fascinating to watch the seasons shift from winter to spring, the lake thawing daily right before my eyes. Mirroring the natural sequence I'm experiencing, I put together a mix of rare soul and funk that starts off heavy, but leaves you ready for the thaw of the frigid midwest winter signaled by the first day of spring. The tracklisting is below and of course you can download the tracked out zip file here or listen to the mp3 here.
- Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - You Can't Blame Me
- Della Humphrey - Don't Make the Good Girls Go Bad
- Bobby & James Purify - I'm Your Puppet
- Z.Z. Hill - It's a Hang Up Baby
- Tony Borders - Lonely Weekend
- All The People - Cramp Your Style
- Z.Z. Hill - I Think I'd Do It
- The Great Deltas - Tra La La
- Dennis Coffey - Whole Lotta Love
- Milk - The Basic
- George McCrea - I Get Lifted
- The Meters - Funky Miracle
- Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Freedom
- Akrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Looking for the Perfect Beat