Monday Morning Music Shuffle – Steady Steady Mix

Okay – Blah… the weekend went too fast, but here we go into the week:

A mixed bag of treats this morning.  A little something for almost everyone? Maybe…

First up with have the first solo hit single by A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip.. Vivrant Thing was released  in 1999 on the first Violator compilation.

  

We jump ahead to April of 2012, and we have a track off a Mexican Summer sampler.  Do What I Came To Do is by San Francisco Indie band The Fresh and Onlys.  You can grab Stash Rituals: Mexican Summer/Software Spring 2012 sampler for free from Amazon:

 

Shawn Mullins is up next with California – a track off his 2010 album Light You Up. It’s a fresh take on the cool, classic California sound. 

 

And finally, a song for those lonely nights that turn into lonelier mornings.  The song was introduced on Frank Sinatra’s classic 1955 album, In the Wee Small Hours.  The song was written by David Mann and Bob Hilliard and is called, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.

 

and here is John Mayer doing the song:

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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle – Blitz Attack Mix

November is winding down.  Here at Ear to the Ground, we like reload the MP3 almost every Monday night with the freshest new and new to us cuts. We gather all these new songs into a playlist by month and then every Tuesday, we shuffle through that playlist and present the result.  Here then is a shuffle of songs added during the month of November 2011.

https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19257458&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=af1e00 Born A Nightmare by You and Me
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You and Me get bluesy with Born A Nightmare off their self-titled LP.

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Description of a Fool by A Tribe Called Quest
“fool – defined in webster’s
open up the book, read it read it
turn the page, see what it says
read it to me will you please”

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Love Has Lost Its Flair – Gabriel from the Untethered LP.   Gabriel is Gabriel Redding of the Redding Brothers. 

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Penobska Oakwalk – Quilt

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