I have this playlist on my laptop called “Mix: Home Listening.” It’s currently at 1,331 songs. When our family is just hanging around the house, or especially when Kristi and I cook, we put that playlist on shuffle and just hope for the best. Well, not really, since everything in that playlist is hand-picked.

There are some evenings when my wife and I will look at each other and just wish we could have that same mix of music that just came up to enjoy later on. So, some time ago, I started keeping track of some of the evenings we really liked and I started making mixes of them for the car or just to re-play. We don’t replay them often, but since I have several of them, I thought: why not share them with my Holiday at the Sea online friends and family.

I do pick the first song but from then on out, it’s all shuffle. We’ve been making these mixes about an hour to an hour-and-a-half since that’s what will fit on a blank CD. So, it has to be on shuffle and play good songs for at least an hour. If I skip a song, then the whole mix is thrown out.

I’m not sure how many of these mixes I will end up posting, but I’ve got several ready to go, so I figured that now is as good a time as any. I hope you enjoy and that these songs accompany as many good family times for you as they have for us.

Enjoy.

1. “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” by Jerry Garcia

2. “Aquarius” by Boards of Canada

3. “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” by Neil Young

4. “Afrikaner Barista” by Beauty Pill

5. “Rastaman Chant (live)” by Bob Marley and the Wailers

6. “Praise God I’m Satisfied” by Blind Willie Johnson

7. “China” by Greg Brown

8. “Can I Kick It?” by A Tribe Called Quest

9. “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin

10. “‘Ol ‘55 (live)” by Tom Waits

11. “Homestead” by Northern Hustle

12. “Love, Love, Love (Everyone” by Akron/Fmily

13. “Oppenheimer” by Old 97’s

14. “The King Is Half-Undressed” by Jellyfish

15. “Kinky Afro” by Happy Mondays

16. “Penny Lane” by the Beatles

17. “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers

18. “Unfortunately, Anna” by Justin Townes Earle

19. “Laughter (live)” by Josh Rouse

20. “Self Care” by Mac Miller

21. “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” by Lee Hazlewood

22. “Precita” by Mount Moriah

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