{"id":536,"date":"2015-03-10T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.steelwagstaff.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2015-03-10T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:00:36","slug":"mixtapes-for-laurel-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/mixtapes-for-laurel-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixtapes for Laurel: BULL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes&#8211;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&#8217;s last name (Bastian = bastion = bulwark = BULL WORK)\u00a0and presented\u00a0a collection of connected, themed songs.<\/p>\n<p>The first two discs (Bull and Work) featured only songs about animals (bulls, etc.) and the second two featured songs about birds and singing, respectively. Here&#8217;s the first disc, BULL:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Bull [animal mixtape #1]\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0QYnKRuRIJFUQoCCIRKCi9?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[A few notes&#8211;the disc opened with a recording of Basil Bunting reading the first 40 seconds of his great poem <em><a href=\"https:\/\/media.sas.upenn.edu\/pennsound\/authors\/Bunting\/Bunting-Basil_Complete-Reading_SUNY-Buffalo_07-29-66.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Briggflatts<\/a><\/em>: &#8220;Brag, sweet tenor bull &#8230; &#8221; and featured a number of tracks that aren&#8217;t in Spotify&#8217;s library: The Maccabees&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8g0REgZYc_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Lions<\/a>&#8220;, M. Doughty&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQ7z8gbb2i8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frog and Banjo<\/a>&#8220;, Les Poppys&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XkGpo9RB0L4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tous Les Animaux du Monde<\/a>&#8220;, Bonnie &#8216;Prince&#8217; Billy&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3K9_1R-bhF0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Boy Blue I<\/a>&#8220;, Sufjan Stevens&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WlOXX-SQjtM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolverine<\/a>&#8220;, Tom McRae&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fYAZPynemNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost of a Shark<\/a>,&#8221; and Beck&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=375eARe1vNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosalie<\/a>&#8220;.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes&#8211;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&#8217;s last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New mixtape at Steel's Magnolias: \"Mixtapes for Laurel: BULL\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[913],"tags":[877,878,66],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix-tapes","tag-laurel","tag-mixtape","tag-spotify"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bull.jpg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bull.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bull.jpg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-8E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":542,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/mixtapes-for-laurel-song\/","url_meta":{"origin":536,"position":0},"title":"Mixtapes for Laurel: SONG","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"March 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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