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Autumn Audio: flannel shirts, leaves changing and songs for dirt roads

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(scenes of New Hampshire in the Fall)

If you're a little bit of country and have never visited a website called "When You Awake", you ain't worth your salt.

Jody, who runs the site, says that When You Awake is an "ode to country life, celebrating everything from classic country and rock to the the current indie folk and roots scenes. The daily blog features music news, mixtapes, ticket giveaways, style finds and much more". She does a great job curating all kinds of great tunes that go twang into mixtapes for you to download. I know I've burned my share of bandwidth on her site.

There is a lot there to read and hear, so make sure you have time on hand when you have a gander.

In a recent post, she put together a list of "Seven Songs Shaping our Fall". The brief for this exercise: include songs that you are really enjoying now, that are shaping your life...genre be damned. Follow the link I provided for you to see what she came up with.

In a subsequent post Jody posted Fall song lists from "friends and trusted bloggers". She also suggests that we readers add out own lists in the comments. It is always great to see people respond to requests/posts like this. I enjoy seeing what everyone has their ears to and what new songs/artists I can get turned on to.

Of course this is a two-way street; I couldn't help but add my own list. A few others added their seven songs, too. Check the list updates here. You'll find mine in the comment section. I'm also adding it here, with my comments from the post, as well as with a Tune Tag playlist attached.

p.s. my "little bit of country" comment in the first line of this post was a tongue-in-cheek nod to two towering Champions of Contrived Cultural Cheesey-ness. I can't believe I am even linking to this (there goes my street cred). Warning: this may make you puke in your mouth.

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My Comments from When You Awake:

Great idea for a list. I am from New Hampshire but I have been off living in Sydney Australia and now in London. I miss the fall. Just looking at that picture takes me back to the N.H. fall with short, bitter days and long, warm nights of carousing by a jukebox with friends.

Here are my seven (this list wears a flannel shirt and should only be listened to on a roadtrip, preferably on a dirt road):

1. The Mountain - Levon Helm (Dirt Farmer)
2. Pullin’ Up the Tracks - Dave Gleason (Midnight California)
3. Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show (O.C.M.S.)
4. Can’t You See - The Marshall Tucker Band (Marshall Tucker Band)
5. Long May You Run - Neil (Decade)
6. Hickory Wind - GP (Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels)
7. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)

(Cameron Crowe would be upset at me for not having an Elton John song on a roadtrip mix tape: Country Comfort - Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection)

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Tune Tags: "I'm using some borrowed tunes..." (new feature @ The 6149)

The title to this post contains a reference to a Neil Young song: "Borrowed Tune". In the song, Ol' Neil talks about how he "borrowed" this song (the melody) from the Rolling Stones (do you now which Stones song he was talking about?).

I'm borrowing tunes for this blog all the time. Most all of my stories and posts have links to songs. I have even posted a few stories with hidden playlists embedded in them. I take some of the bits of the story and hyperlink them to songs that fit. Here is one of the posts with a hidden playlist: Poorman's Podcast: "We gots dat ol' Pioneering Spirit once again..." (plus, a hidden playlist).

Sometimes I offer up playlists to download or that are embedded in the post via music sharing widgets, a la GrooveShark. Here is an example of a post with an embedded playlist, as well as a couple downloadable tracks: Feel Like Goin' Home: a playlist for homesick ramblers....

I take the time to drop tunes into posts so that you get something in return for stopping by The 6149 (thanks). In doing so, I hope to turn you on to new tunes or offer up old favourites to put your ear on. (Faithful readers...does this sound familiar? The old "Give and Take"?)

Yesterday I was adding a few links to my profile and I paused to re-read it. In it I state:

"I am a fan of music and all of the sounds and stories that live in the songs...And like the bluesman, country singers and folk troubadours before me, I am pulled by the lure of going around in search of the sounds and to share my own stories."

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It was the last part that got me to thinking; I am not sharing enough sounds...enough music. At least, I am not making a point of sharing it.

Going forward, at the end of each (non-mobile) posting, I am going to embed a tune or two or a few that somehow relates to the post. This could be a bit of wordplay or it could be thematic based on the post. I am not entirely sure how it will shake out yet, but I'll make 'er work.

I am calling them: Tune Tags. Much like tags for blog posts, these will be audio tags. If I feel its warranted, I will drop a bit twitter'esque commentary on each. You can play along as well. If you want to add a Tune Tag for the post, leave a comment on the post and I'll update the playlist.

A bit gimmicky? Yes. Will it be worth a listen? Yes. Am I sure? Yes. Positive.

Here is our first go with Tune Tags.

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