This Thanksgiving, as Lisa and I hurtle in an overstuffed car towards Oklahoma, blowing past the waving fields of grain and steeling ourselves for an extended weekend full of fun, food, and familial dysfunction … we’ll also be subjecting the kids and mother-in-law to the 13th Annual Remediomlinson Family Mix Tape.
We’re thankful for Iggy Pop, Steve Early, Tom Waits, and the rest of the bunch below.
- The Passenger (Iggy Pop, Lust for Life)
- Feel Alright (Steve Earle, I Feel Alright)
- I Run to You (Lady Antebellum, Lady Antebellum)
- One Voice (The Wailin’ Jennys, 40 Days)
- Misguided Angel (Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session)
- In My Time of Dying (The Be Good Tanyas, Le Coeur Des Hommes 2 Original Motion Picture – Soundtrack)
- Running Up the Stairs (Leo Kottke, Great Big Boy)
- Small Town Saturday Night (Hal Ketchum, Hal Ketchum: The Hits)
- Gravity’s Gone (Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse)
- I’m Goin’ Down (Bruce Springsteen, Born In the U.S.A.)
- Every Little Kiss (Bruce Hornsby & The Range, The Way It Is)
- Need You Now (Lady Antebellum, Need You Now – Single)
- The Story (Brandi Carlile, The Story)
- Daughter (Loudon Wainwright III, Daughter – Single)
- Buy You A Ring (Huffamoose, We’ve Been Had Again)
- The Greatest (Cat Power, The Greatest)
- Green Grass (Tom Waits, Real Gone)
- Sky Blue Sky (Wilco, Sky Blue Sky)