As you may or may not know, I love music. I listen to a lot of music. All kinds of music. That’s not an exaggeration just so that I seem eclecticly hip. I really do listen to all kinds of music and I love to share music I like with lots of people. I don’t really make New Year’s Resolutions, but one thing I’d like to do here on the ol’ blog is upload a mix once a month.

I don’t know what this will look like or if each mix will have a theme. But I do know what the first mix is: songs I’d love to hear my friend Shawn Skinner cover. Not because Shawn is primarily a cover artist but because covers are often a way for an artist to stretch themselves and find their voice through other people; and I can honestly hear Shawn’s voice in each of these songs, though in very different ways. I can hear him making each of these his own. Each song on this mix was picked with Shawn’s voice and playing style in mind.

So, without much further blabbing, here is January’s mix tape (yes, I know it’s not actually a tape, but I’m dating myself here): “Skinned Alive: Songs I’d Love To Hear Shawn Skinner Play.”

Enjoy and feel free to let me know if there’s some sort of mix you’d like to see in future months.

Download January’s monthly mix tape: “Skinned Alive: Songs I’d Love To Hear Shawn Skinner Play”

Here is the track list:

1. Say Valley Maker by Smog
2. Radio Cure by Wilco
3. No Peace, Los Angeles by Mike Doughty
4. My Winding Wheel by Ryan Adams
5. Deep Red Bells by Neko Case
6. Nights Like These by Lucero
7. Jesse With The Long Hair by Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
8. Come To My Senses by Doug Burr
9. Vivid by Greg Brown
10. Folded Hands by Zoo Animal
11. How Good You Are by Joe Pug
12. If I Needed You by Townes Van Zandt
13. Sorry You’re Sick by Ted Hawkins
14. I See A Darkness by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
15. Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen
16. Barstool Boys by Marah
17. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson
18. Boots Of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
19. Old Shoes (&Picture Postcards) by Tom Waits
20. When It Don’t Come Easy by Patty Griffin

Download January’s monthly mix tape: “Skinned Alive: Songs I’d Love To Hear Shawn Skinner Play”