001 Kukumbas - Respect
002 The Bamboos - King Of The Rodeo
003 Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls - She’s My Melody
004 Cass McCombs - Jonesy Boy
005 Be Good Tanyas - For The Turnstiles
006 Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle - Go-Go’s Theme
007 Mayer Hawthorne - Make Her Mine
008 Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy - Orujo
009 Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread
010 Cookin’ On 3 Burners - This Girl
011 Champion Jack Dupree - Junker’s Blues
012 Junior Wells - It’s A Man Down There
013 Irma Thomas - Ruler Of My Heart
014 Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Express Yourself
015 Law Of The Least Effort - Ringing Bell
016 Kings Of Convenience - Peacetime Resistance
017 Nostalgia 77 & The Fiction Band - My Name Is
018 Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Skinz
019 The Fiction Trio - What Is Life

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Have to admit, I have not been keeping up with what might be played at Festival 8.  Was a time when I would have scoured the message boards to handicap the event but, truth is, I haven’t even been dropping in on the list on the band’s website.  My sentimental hope is for a Dylan cover album.  I figure they’ve done The Beatles, The Who, The Talking Heads, Pink Floyd & The Velvet Underground.  All classics…so where’s the Dylan?  Just a gut feel.

As for this mix…it’s certainly no booty shaker.  A little blues, a little folk and a tad bit of jazz.

Just a couple of words on some noteworthy tracks.

TruThoughts has a compilation out of their artists doing just covers.  Fantastic.  The tracks by The Bamboos and Nostalgia 77 represent that awesomeness here.

Neil Young’s ‘On The Beach’ is certainly my favorite album of his.  Rarely do covers do the original any justice but the Be Good Tanya’s take on “For The Turnstiles” actually improves on the original.

If you take the original version of Iron and Wine’s ‘Bird Stealing Bread’ and put it next to the live take here, it’s like night and day.  This comes from a Record Store Day limited run and it’s perhaps the best Iron & Wine release to date.  Full sounds.  Seek it out.

Two soul tracks - Mayer Hawthorne and Cookin’ On 3 Burners.  They sound really cheesy but they grew on me real quick.