Steel Wagstaff

Here’s the third of the Hipz Hop discs I made for Laurel a few years ago. Spotify is missing three tracks: Chances R’s “Anarchy in the UK” (after Kapten Rod), Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “If I Woz A Top Natch Poet” (after Baths), and Rahzel’s “Godfather of Noize” (last track in the mix).

Here’s the second of the Hipz Hops mixtapes I made for Laurel a few years back. Spotify is missing two songs, “Fist Full of Strife” by Blacklisted Individuals (2nd song), and “White Privilege” by Macklemore (after “Kool On”):

Here’s the fourth disc I made for Laurel to listen to while driving around for her job a few years back: Joanna Newsom’s “Easy” wasn’t in Spotify’s library, but it came between “Human Thing” and “Suckas Don’t Respect It” on the original disc.

Here’s the third disc I made for Laurel to listen to while driving around for her job a few years back: A few songs Spotify didn’t have in their library: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s cover of “The World’s Greatest” and Frakkur’s “7” appeared after “Neighborhood #4” and before “One Day”, and Seasick Steve’s “Walking Man” was…

Here’s the second of a set of several discs I made for Laurel several years ago for her to listen to while driving. There was a song that Spotify doesn’t have in their library. It’s a great tune by a Ghanaian group, but I don’t remember the group’s name of the song title, so it’s…

Sometime after Laurel and I got together, I realized that she spent a fair amount of her time in her car for her job, and that her car had a CD player. So I made her a set of CD mixes for when she was driving around. Here’s the first of these discs: A few…

When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes–not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s last…