This week’s not-so-random 20 songs

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The usual rules are to shuffle your entire music collection, click Play, and report the first 20 tracks, no matter what. This week’s list is a little different, in honor of recent events. It’s formatted as song title, artist, and album (in italics):

  1. New Orleans Wins the War, Randy Newman, Land of Dreams
  2. New Orleans, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Dr. John: The Essential Recordings
  3. Down South in New Orleans, The Band, The Last Waltz
  4. Tipitina, Professor Longhair, Louisiana Spice
  5. Sunrise on the Mississippi, Bruce Cockburn, Dart to the Heart
  6. Delta Queen, Leftover Salmon, Live at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2003
  7. High Water (for Charley Patton), Bob Dylan, Love and Theft
  8. So Many Rivers to Cross, Maria Muldaur, Louisiana Love Call
  9. Down in the Flood, Bob Dylan, Masked and Anonymous (soundtrack)
  10. How Can I Help But Love You, Aaron Neville, Treacherous: A History of the Neville Brothers
  11. Help the Poor, B. B. King, Riding with the King
  12. I Cried, The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Sermon
  13. Christmas in Washington, Steve Earle, Live at Newport 2004
  14. Some Humans Ain’t Human, John Prine, Fair & Square
  15. Big Hat, No Cattle, Randy Newman, Bad Love
  16. Real Situation, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Songs of Freedom
  17. Dawn in a New World, Ottmar Liebert, Solo Para Ti
  18. Land of Hope and Dreams, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Live in New York City
  19. After the Rain Has Fallen, Sting, Brand New Day
  20. Dry Spell, The Meters, Look-ka Py Py

Back to random songs next week.

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  1. The Nurse – The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
    Top O’ The Morning To Ya – House of Pain, House of Pain
    Stupid – Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow
    Radio – Eazy-E, Eazy-Duz-It
    Swallow My Pride – Fastbacks, Sub-Pop 200
    Come Rain Or Come Shine – Art Blakey, Thompson Mix Volume I
    Don’t Leave Me Now – Pink Floyd, The Wall – Disc 1
    Pocket Knife – PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
    A Face In The Crowd – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Full Moon Fever
    Stretched Over – The Myriad, You Can’t Trust A Ladder
    None Of Them Knew They Were Robots – Mr. Bungle, California
    Be True to Yourself – 2nd II None, 2nd II None
    Avalon – John Coltrane, The Prestige Recordings – Disc 1
    Cactus/Tony’s Theme – Frank Black, The Dream Is Over
    What a Diff’rence a Day Made – Jamie Cullum, Twentysomething
    The Moma Dance – Phish, Story of the Ghost
    Smile – Rod Stewart, As Time Goes By…The Great American Songbook: Volume II
    Crime Scene, Pt. 1 – Afghan Whigs, Black Love
    Waiting for Somebody – Paul Westerberg, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Singles
    One Sweet World – Dave Matthews Band, Remember Two Things

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