97: The California Mix

The Title: I made this mix for my wife, who was travelling to California for a wedding. I loaded the mix with California bands, or bands associated with California, anyways.
The Cover: I wanted to splice together very similar photos of Jakob Dylan and Dave Matthews from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. But where to stitch them together? All of my surgical options ended up looking like Mr Potato Head crossed with Robert De Niro as Frankenstein. I eventually had a brainwave and simply slashed a diagonal line across them both.

1. “Mrs. Potter's Lullaby” COUNTING CROWS
2. “Superstar” SHERYL CROW
3. “It's My Life” NO DOUBT (I thought I was the only one who still remembered this New Wave classic! The band Talk Talk had a weird music video whose imagery has stuck with me all these years. I'm kind of reluctant to Google it for fear that it will underwhelm me all these years later.)
4. “Shimmer” SHAWN MULLINS the guitar riff sound at the opening of this song is SO late 1990s!
5. “Rock Me On The Water” JACKSON BROWNE featuring Russ Kunkel  (drums) and Leland Sklar (bass), plus David Crosby on backing vocals.
6. “One Down” BEN FOLDS (recorded live 6-12-02, on the tour where my wife and I saw Ben on the same night, a few weeks before we met for the first time.)
7. “Go Where You Wanna Go” The MAMAS & PAPAS (I think this song was in a commercial for Claritin.)
8. “Gypsy” (alternate mix) FLEETWOOD MAC
9. “The Difference” The WALLFLOWERS
10. “Metal Firecracker” LUCINDA WILLIAMS

11. “Firecracker” RYAN ADAMS
12. “Drown” (acoustic) SON VOLT (from Napster, circa 1999. On my Tidal playlist version of this CD, I have swapped in a live full-band version.)
13. “Bigger Than My Body” JOHN MAYER (a solo acoustic performance, downloaded from the KISS-108 FM Web site. On the Tidal version of this CD, I have swapped in the album full-band version)
14. “Crash” DAVE MATTHEWS (a solo acoustic performance, downloaded from the KISS-108 FM Web site. On the Tidal version of this CD, I have swapped in Matthews/Tim Reynolds live at Radio City Music Hall, April 2007)
15. “Seven Bridges Road” The EAGLES (live 1980)
16. “Please Don't Tell Her” BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS (from Napster, circa 1999)
17. “Cars Can't Escape” WILCO (downloaded from the Wilco Web site)
18. “Waiting For My Real Life To Begin” COLIN HAY