I enjoyed creating a new mixtape on Friday and Saturday of this weekend. Searching for the songs was great fun, sifting through the selection to find the song that belongs to this Mud Pump Wrangle mixtape.

A couple of songs founded the theme for this tape: Tom Waits’Make It Rain (Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law vibe), Left Lane Cruiser (goodness, what a band), and Grinderman’s Electric Alice. I was looking for a scratchy guitar, probably a very American, rural feel, bar band, and fun to play. Instruments may be slightly out of tune, distorted, scratchy, drum sounds improvised, wobbly, and the singer hissing and humming in the microphone. And goodness, Black Diamond Heavies – Oh, Sinnerman, what a song with that keyboard solo let through a fuzz-box!

You can listen to the Mud Pump Wrangle playlist on Spotify.

I drew, scanned, cut, and glued the black-and-white cassette cover using the templates from de Bandjesfabriek.

Side I
Tom Waits – Make It Rain – Remastered
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Sure ‘Nuff ‘n’ Yes, I Do
Left Lane Cruiser – Big Momma
De Kift – Kijker
T Bone Burnett – Palestine Texas
Grinderman – Electric Alice
Black Diamond Heavies – Oh, Sinnerman
The White Stripes – One More Cup of Coffee
Side II
Mr. Airplane Man – Sun Sinking Low
Soledad Brothers – Going Back To Memphis
Billy Childish, Dan Melchior – Bottom of the Sea
C.W. Stoneking – The Thing I Done
The Wanton Bishops – Howl
James Leg – Drinking Too Much
The Dirtbombs – Livin’ for the City
King Automatic – Le Redresseur De Torts
Don Cavalli – I’M Going To A River
The Abigails – The One That Let Me Go