The Minnesota Connection for mle292

[barondave]

Hey, Marscon is coming up fast, and if I'm going to prod wormquartet into burning CDs, I better get on the ball too. mle292 and I agreed to exchange mix tapes at the con, and here is mine. The CD jewel case will have a listing of the songs and artists, but there's so much more. I'll put this behind a cut for those of you not interested. Generic note: Making the mix got a lot easier when I expanded beyond the subject matter of the songs to include local artists.


The Minnesota Connection

1 The Road – Nate Bucklin 4:54

A great version of this song, from his latest album.

2 Under The Quarter Moon – Carla Sciaky 4:23

3 The Wood-Tick Song – Rich and Roady 3:18

Roady Tate, of Riverfolk fame.

4 Turn Of The Wrench – Dana Lyons 6:50

5 Bummer – Warren King w/Nate Bucklin 3:15 [*]

Warren was a MN-STFer when this was recorded.

6 Recipe for Love – Tetes Noires 2:51 [**]

They gave lots of local concerts in the early 80s.

7 Luntennial Promo – Shockwave Radio 1:32

We had fun.

8 The Fair – Ann Reed 3:22
9 Roseville Fair – Bill Staines 3:26
10 Renaissance Faire – Blackmoor's Night 4:15

The first is about the Minnesota State Fair, the second may or may not be about the burb.
The third song is the only real cheat, since it's not a MN artist or specifically about a MN event, but it certainly fits in here.

11 99 1/2 Won't Do – Sabathani Choir 2:43

12 Preposterous – Nate Bucklin 3:22

Another good version from the album.

13 The Reincarnation Song – Howard Harrison 4:07

14 Fairy Tale – Jane Frietag w/Nate Bucklin 2:30 [*]

Jane was a Milwaukee fan who lived in Mpls for a while.

15 Home – Riverfolk 3:04

16 Rue The Day – Folk Underground 3:11

A slight cheat, as the group is from Wisconsin, but the song is produced in Mpls and written by frequent visitor Jane Yolen.

17 Minnesota Rouser – Minnesota Marching Band :59

The U of M Marching Band!

18 River – Bill Staines 4:20

Recorded in Mpls at the Cafe Extempore

19 Upper Mississippi Shakedown – Lamont Cranston 3:46

20 Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota – Weird Al Yankovic 6:46

21 Marscon 2004: Dr. Demento Bumpers 2:21

A small selection. I don't know if he used any of these on his show, but they were a lot of fun to make.

[*] Recorded by Baron Dave in his living room, circa 1981
[**] Digitized at the request of the artists

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Comments

Your Minnesota artists

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled that you included a couple of my songs! I'm not quite sure what you're going to do with this compilation, though. And I don't remember a Jane Freitag song called "Fairy Tale," though I obviously knew it at one time or I wouldn't have played on it. I don't think Warren King was ever a Minn-steffer, but he hung around with a couple of us for a bit and played at the Steve Brust benefit concert where the money was raised to buy a replacement guitar for Steve, after his had been stolen. In any event, let me know what you're going to do with this CD. And I am *very* flattered to be on the same compilation with Bill Staines' "Roseville Fair" and *River,* two of my three favorites of his. (My actual favorite of Staines is the one called "Flowers in the Snow," but I don't think there's even a remote Minnesota connection there.)

Nate Bucklin

Re: Your Minnesota artists

[barondave.livejournal.com]

This is a one-time mix CD trade with mle292, for her mix CD with internet/technology songs. While it's conceivable others may want to trade with the same mix, I usually just make a more person-specific mix with slightly different songs. As it was, I had to leave out The Nick Atoms, Steve Brust and The Flash Girls to name but a few. Basically, I'm bragging on LJ rather than sending her an e-mail, in part to shame others into getting their CDs ready by the con encourage the exchange of music for Marscon. Much of my impresario angst is that many of the songs that actually mention "Minnesota" are not my favorites. Should I include, say, Lojo's "Last Time I Saw California" about leaving MN for CA or "I Wanna Be A Powerpuff Girl"? I like the latter a whole bunch. (So does my five-year-old niece.)

Warren was never very active, but he hung around meetings for a couple of years; he's in at least one of my pictures of the meetings of that era. Heck, you even wrote a song about him.

The chorus, which you sing with Jane, is:

I still believe
in fairy tales
and in dreams come true.
Don't you know
I care enough
to say goodbye to you.

Does this spur your memory?

It doesn't surprise me that our tastes in Bill Staines overlap a great deal and then diverge near the top. My favorite of his is "A Place In The Choir", of which I have two versions. For a while I thought one of them was recorded in Mpls, but alas it wasn't so I couldn't shoehorn it into this compilation. I'm pleased that you're pleased with the association!

Warren King

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I never wrote a song about Warren King, but wrote two about Warren Cartwright. The Jane song is just barely familiar; I guess it's positive that I haven't blanked out about it completely.

Nate

Re: Warren King

[barondave.livejournal.com]

You're right! I'm getting my Warrens confused. So... I have pictures of W. Cartwright and audio of W. King. I can't picture W. King in my mind or remember what W. Cartwright sounds like. Egad.

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

You've got actual liner notes, very nice.

I'm also glad to hear that wormquartet will be at Marscon this year. I missed the Saturday afternoon Dementia last year because I was feeling sickly. I loves me the Dementia performances on Saturday.