Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Music: The Sweet Playlist


Yes, friends, the Globe's music editors have been toiling ceaselessly to bring you the Sweet playlist, and it's finally here. It is the product of your own input along with their carefully selected numbers, all designed to bring you and your children and pets relief and peace on a summer's day.

It is a lengthy playlist, spanning genres ranging from New Orleans jazz to Hawaiian ukulele to reggae to country to West African to American folk to French pop, and a little song in Portuguese just to round things out. Because this is Old Gesh's list, there had to be one Manu Chao song. And at least one Willie Nelson. Please let us apologize in advance if you suggested a song and do not see it on the list. It wasn't that we didn't like it or that we don't love you; only that acquiring the song proved prohibitive.

As a special added bonus, to complete your hammock experience, we're throwing in the recipe for Uncle Gesh's Gin & Tonic Without Any Gin:

1. Fill a tall glass with ice-cold ice.
2. Squeeze half a lime into it. Really, don't be shy with the lime. You aren't going to hurt anything.
3. Fill 'er up with fizzly water.
4. Stir it, if you're into that sort of thing.
5. Turn on the Sweet playlist.
6. Take a sip.
7. Recline.

Of course, if you're the kind of person who enjoys a little gin in your gin&tonic, you can put some of that in there, but be sure not to totally fill up the glass with fizzly water first, because it will spill over the rim when you add the gin.

The playlist resides here, all available for download. Here's the list on paper:

1. A-Ha: Dark Is The Night for All
2. Wilco: How to Fight Loneliness
3. Salif Keita: Baba
4. Jack Johnson: Lullaby
5. Baaba Maal: Myaabele
6. Samite: Ngwino Rukundo
7. Gregory Isaacs: Stranger in Town
8. Beth Orton: Sweetest Decline
9. Julien Jacob: Cotonou
10. Louise Attaque: Du Nord Au Sud
11. Nickel Creek: Out of the Woods
12. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleroes: X-Ray Style
13.  The Wailin' Jennys: Barefoot Floors
14. Don Williams: My Rifle, My Pony and Me
15. Grateful Dead: Ripple
16. The Weepies: A Painting by Chagall
17. Alison Krauss: Baby Mine
18. Daniel Lanois: San Juan
19. Willie Nelson: It Always Will Be
20. Jimmy Buffet: Tin Cup Chalice
21. Willie Nelson: Overtime
22. Louis Armstrong: When It's Sleepytime Down South
23. Manu Chao: Mina Galera
24. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
25. Sade: By Your Side
26. The Beautiful South: Everybody's Talking
27. John Denver: Sunshine on My Shoulder

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