A Brighter Day

a brighter day
is a-coming
to know the meaning
to understand
freedom
to stand like a man
to accept another
beliefs
creeds
color


it's easy to think
every man is a racist
we are capable
of those thoughts
we have a choice
we have a chance
to change
to show dignity
to show respect


closure
departure
the things
I once knew
I go around
with this world
with the people
in it

Closure- Songs from Jessie Lynn

1. LaVern Baker- Soul On Fire [Angel Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
2. Bruce Springsteen- The Brokenhearted
3. Regina Spektor- Laughing With
4. Pat MacDonald- Love Me at a Distance
5. Jolie Holland- Ghostly Girl
6. Liam Warfield- Refusing To Get Dressed
7. Jason Wilber- Lost In Your Hometown
8. World/Inferno Friendship Society- Charming Side Of Drunk
9. Lucinda Williams- Everything Has Changed
10. Morphine- Kerouac
11. The Fox Hunt- Getting Drunk (By Yourself)
12. The Tossers- Dancin' Shoes
13. Anais Mitchell feat. Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco and Ben Knox Miller- Way Down Hadestown
14. 16 Horsepower- Wayfaring Stranger
15. Piners- Smoke Along the Track
16. Cat Power- Colors And The Kids
17. Peggy Lee- Is That All There Is?
18. Son Volt- Streets That Time Walks
19. Mischief Brew- Departure Arrival
20. Tom Waits- A Little Rain

Closure by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Holden Caulfield : Blue As Hell

I am the protagonist in this mix. I can relate with these feelings of dejection. I can see through these feelings and go back to my childhood and find a familiar mind in Holden. This is for all the HC's who grew up with this book in the back of their minds. Enjoy!

1. Neil Young- Comes A Time
2. Chet Baker- I've Never Been in Love Befor
3. Grateful Dead- Touch of Grey
4. Allen Ginsberg- America
5. Tom Waits- Kentucky Avenue
6. Big Star- I'm In Love With A Girl
7. Sarah Lee Guthrie- Young Girl's Mind
8. Bright Eyes- Waste Of Paint
9. Bing Futch- I Cried For Days
10. Beck- Guess I'm Doing Fine
11. The Velvet Underground- Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (Early Version)
12. Richard Lindgren- On The Nickel
13. Simon Joyner- Fool's Gold On Main Street
14. Patrick Sky- Nectar Of God
15. Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah
16. Joan Baez- God Is God
17. Sammy Walker- Catcher In The Rye

Holden Caulfield by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

Sticks McGhee- My Baby's Gone
Big Chief Ellis with Cephas and Wiggins- Louise Blues
Doc Watson- Sitting on Top of the World
John Jackson- Railroad Bill
Bill Williams- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Pink Anderson- You Don't Know My Mind
J.C. Burris- Blues Around My Bed
Reverend Gary Davis- Hesitation Blues
Brownie McGhee- Pawn Shop Blues
Archie Edwards- The Road is Rough and Rocky
Martin, Bogan and Armstrong- Hoodoo Blues
Lesley Riddle- Red River Blues
Peg Leg Sam Jackson- Walking Cane
Etta Baker- One Dime Blues
Roscoe Holcomb- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Josh White- Outskirts of Town
Baby Tate- See What You Done Done
Marvin and Turner Foddrell- I Got a Woman
John Tinsley- Girl Dressed in Green
E.C. Ball- Blues in the Morning
Sticks McGhee- Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee)

Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Tom Waits - Night hawks on the radio NY 12-14-1976

Tom Waits- Emotional Weather Report
Tom Waits- A Sight For Sore Eyes
Tom Waits- Step Right Up
Tom Waits- Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
Tom Waits- Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie)
Tom Waits- Diamonds On My Windshield
Tom Waits- San Diego Seranade
Tom Waits- Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
Tom Waits- New Coat Of Paint
Tom Waits- The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
Tom Waits- I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)

Tom Waits - Night hawks on the radio NY 12-14-1976 by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Unsullen Sounds (of Thinking)

I sit righteous, drinking the tea
my silence is my being
I am philosophy
parts of knowledge
personal truths
rational thinking


what do I know?
man can't live on good faith
I know it
man can't live on bread alone
I know that too
the certainty & awareness of man
in the name of a virtue
is not a godliness of man


unsullen sounds
from inside my consciousness
I know my own existence
I hear the voice of my heart
I dig the oneness of my soul
thoughts & emotions
carry me away, to & fro
into & out of
this waking life

George Waldrop- Unsullen Sounds (of Thinking) by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Nothing Can Bring You Down Like Your Hometown

Tribute to Doowad Jones

When I make a mix and I only get two comments I don't take it personal because, in my mind it's not a reflection of the content of the mix. For years now most of you are talking about something you don't know when you comment on my mixes. That's why mixcloud is a revolution. Because, it gives you are real chance to talk about the music it's self. I think I would like to be right and march into hell, rather than follow a bunch of fools into heaven.

I still live in my hometown. doowad once said to me "Nothing Can Bring You Down Like Your Hometown", I think it's from a Steve Earle song. But, there has never been a truer statement in my mind. So doowad remember a posted mix is a lesson in humility. The music speaks for it's self.

1. Elliott Smith- Twilight
2. Lou Reed- Set the Twilight Reeling
3. Joni Mitchell- See You Sometime
4. Bruce Springsteen- Spirit in the Night
5. Mary Gauthier- Camelot Motel
6. Tom Petty- Last Dance With Mary Jane [Live in Minneapolis MN, 1999]
7. Mason Jennings- Amphetamine Girl
8. Catherine Ann Irwin- Cry Our Little Eyes Out
9. Bob Dylan- Marchin' to the City (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
10. Leonard Cohen- Crazy to Love You
11. Joan Baez- I Am A Wanderer
12. Donovan- Lalena
13. Lucinda Williams- Tryin To Get To Heaven
14. Emiliana Torrini- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
15. Jessica Lea Mayfield- Nervous Lonely Night
16. Bob Neuwirth- Just Like You
17. Eric Bibb- A Good Woman
18. Blaze Foley- Clay Pigeons
19. Amy Rigby- Just Someone I Had in Mind
20. Beck- rowboat

Nothing Can Bring You Down Like Your Hometown by Texhobart on Mixcloud

What Is Poetry?

to me a easy feeling
to say what I need to express
thoughtful emotions revealed
for you to see
the reality of me
simplistic of commonplace
things I would say to your face
I find a freedom in poetic expression
a magic by meaning
artistic pleasure in feelings
words from my imagination
intelligence of a human being
sharing the understanding
the things I write, I say
asking the question first
to myself
thinking how to come across
thinking how to convey
thinking about what I need to say
exciting pleasure by beauty
said in an ordinary way

George Waldrop- What Is Poetry? by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Good People

Good People

I'm not a raised right man
I can't change the past
my parents neglected the family
I can't change the past
my parents didn't teach me
I can't change the past
I suffered, I was in need without maturity to know
I can't change the past
I never knew to respect
I never was respected
in a poorly developed stateless mind
a moral bankrupt
weary of who to trust
I had great friends
who taught me how to be my own best friend
since my family never showed me love
I was without strength
I was incapable of love
I didn't know nothing about love
those memories of my first few friends
haunt me now about how it ends
how I could have been a better person
I could have lived by the golden rule
how I could have given them the best
of myself, I could have loved them
well from what I have taught myself about love
trouble is, I know what it's like to be loved from them
I know that the goodness in the human spirit
is something to live by
to give into & be apart of
to learn from
good people stay with you
all of your life
in your conscience
in your loving memories
in your soul

George Waldrop- Good People by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Golden Bob Dylan

[doowad] Bob Dylan- Like A Rolling Stone
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Motorpsycho Nitemare
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- I Shall Be Free
[doowad] Bob Dylan- I Shall Be Free No. 10
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's Blues
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Temporary Like Achilles
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- One Too Many Mornings
[doowad] Bob Dylan- She Belongs To Me
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Spanish Harlem Incident
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Visions Of Johanna
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's Dream
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Boots Of Spanish Leather
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
[doowad] Bob Dylan- 4th Time Around
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Corrine, Corrina
[doowad] Bob Dylan- I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Just Like A Woman

[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Chimes Of Freedom
[doowad] Bob Dylan- The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Ballad Of A Thin Man
[doowad] Bob Dylan- One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
[doowad] Bob Dylan- The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Oxford Town
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Only A Pawn In Their Game
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Gates of Eden
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- When The Ship Comes In
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Mama, You Been On My Mind
[doowad] Bob Dylan- To Ramona
[doowad] Bob Dylan- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Golden Bob Dylan 1 by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Golden Bob Dylan 2 by Texhobart on Mixcloud