Autumn Comes & Autumn Leaves

Many of you have asked if I would be releasing a fall/winter playlist this year, so to appease the masses, here it is. This year’s fall playlist is perfect for crisp days inside reading a book curled up with a warm blanket, a fire, and a cup of coffee.. So grab a good book, snuggle up with that special someone next to the fire, and enjoy a lazy afternoon with these quiet songs. I’ll be doing the same.

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Tracklist:
Pioneers - The Lighthouse and the Whaler
Golden Age - Future Historians
Stubborn Love - The Lumineers
Skeleton Key - Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s
Vice Rag - A.A. Bondy
I Will Follow Love All the Way Home - Tyler Lyle
Beggar In The Morning -  The Barr Brothers
White Daisy Passing - Rocky Volato
A Lack of Color - Death Cab for Cutie
Animal Tracks - Mountain Man
Family Portrait - Radical Face
Either Way - Beta Radio
Give Up - Low Roar
Lay Low - Shovels & Rope
The Sickness Unto Death - Typhoon
Coming ‘Round to Get You - Farewell Milwaukee 

Folly Mixtape

Tonight I drive down to Folly Beach, SC for a long weekend of surfing, so it’s about time I release the mixtape I’ve been listening to so far this summer. As with all of my playlists, I’ve personally tested these songs and found them to be suitable for driving along the coast, sitting on the shore, watching the tide go out, afternoon longboarding sessions, and enjoying post-surfing fish tacos.
So, if you find yourself heading down to the coast this summer, praying for sun and high winds, bring along this mixtape, and take a few pictures while you’re there. I’d like to see some proof that you kids are actually being adventurous. Photo reply to this post with surf and beach pictures. I’ll be giving away some prizes to the best photos. And if you see me around Folly Beach and Charleston this weekend, holler at me. 

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Tracklist:
Floating Vibes - Surfer Blood
Let’s Go Surfing - The Drums
King of the Beach - Wavves
Tokyo - Telekinesis
Soma - The Strokes
Electric Feel - MGMT
Take a Walk - Passion Pit
The Only Place - Best Coast
Easy - Real Estate
Down On Loving - The Soft Pack
The Boys are Leaving Town - Japandroids
Mountain Sound - Of Monsters and Men
Wasting Time - Reading Rainbow
Romance - Wild Flag
Lalita - The Love Language
All of This - The Naked and Famous
Woods - The Rosebuds
If You Wanna - The Vaccines
Lions in Cages - Wolf Gang
Young Adult Friction - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Can’t Get Over You - The Vivian Girls
A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
Dreaming - Seapony
The Horse - Beach Fossils
Big Wave - Jenny and Johnny
Weekend - Smith Westerns
Meantime - Givers
Lovely Cup - Grouplove
Take Care - Beach House 

Campfire Mixtape

I’ve been getting a lot of messages and emails lately asking if I would be releasing a new playlist any time soon. Well, your eager inquiries have been rewarded. This playlist has been personally tested to be suitable for fireside chats in the woods, falling asleep in a tent, quiet nights reading, driving through the mountains, fly fishing, and whatever adventures you can get yourself into. So, just as the season of adventuring is about to be upon us, I give you the Campfire playlist. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have the last few months.

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Kingdom of Your Own - Matthew and the Atlas
Down in the Valley - The Head and the Heart
The Stable Song - Gregory Alan Isakov
One Hundred Million Years - M. Ward
Hymn #35 - Joe Pug
Your Rocky Spine - Great Lake Swimmers
(Don’t Tremble) - The Low Anthem
Troubles Will Be Gone - The Tallest Man on Earth
Middle of June - Noah Gundersen
For You - Peter Bradley Adams
Everything - Ben Howard
Quick Fix - The Daylights
Lovers Without Love - Joshua James
Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low - James Vincent McMorrow
Sheets - Damien Jurado
Good Days - Joe Purdy
Heart & Bones - The Pines
Honey Jars - Bryan John Appleby
I Don’t Feel It Anymore (Song of the Sparrow) - William Fitzsimmons 

Good Winter Mixtape

If you’ve know me for any amount of time, you may notice that I neglected to release the fourth in the Pumpkin Spice Latte Mixtape series, the fall playlist I’ve released every year for the past three years. It wasn’t for lack of trying, but other things piled up, life happened, and here we are halfway to winter with no mixtape, and honestly not much inspiration.
Worry not, dear readers. I have for you instead, the first installment of the winter themed playlists; titled Good Winter. It’s a snow (or, as I realized later, blood) themed playlist perfectly designed for cold snowy (or rainy) days inside next to the fire with a blanket, a french press, and an old book. For when you come back in from playing in the snow to a smooth cup of hot chocolate, the feeling of blood rushing back into your fingertips, and the smell of evergreen.

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Tracklist:
We Are the Battery Human — Stornoway
Old Pine — Ben Howard
Blood — Middle East
Put There By The Land — Great Lake Swimmers
Angel in the Snow — Elliot Smith
Fuel for Fire — M. Ward
Winter Fawn — Matt Pond PA
Some Day Soon — Alexi Murdoch
Atlas Hands — Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Blood on the Snow — Horse Feathers
Without a Doubt — Isbells
Casimir Pulaski Day — Sufjan Stevens
Faded from the Winter — Iron & Wine
Noah’s Nameless Wife — Bryan John Appleby
Blood Bank — Bon Iver
Garden — Noah Gundersen
To Build a Home — The Cinematic Orchestra

I hope you enjoy what I’ve constructed here. I hope this finds you warm and well. Listen to this on those cold days inside or on the road, and there’ll be a good chance that I’m somewhere listening right along with you.

Kindle The Fire Mixtape

So here it is, the long awaited, highly coveted, much anticipated Oh, Pioneer! playlist. It’s called Kindle the Fire in Your Chest (Kindle the Fire for short) and it’s an hour and 37 minutes packed full of amazing jams by tons of great artists, as well as the classic reading of “Pioneers! O, Pioneers!” by Will Geer.
This playlist is has been personally tested by yours truly and is proven to be a great soundtrack for roadtrips into the wilderness, chopping down trees in your back yard, reading books by Hemingway and Thoreau, and standard-issue shenanigans and cockamamie.

If you enjoy it, or have any comments or suggestions, come at me, bro.

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Tracklist:
01. Pioneers! O, Pioneers! — Walt Whitman (Read by Will Geer)
02. Generator (First Floor) — Freelance Whales
03. Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version) — Sufjan Stevens
04. Night Beds — Night Beds
05. Welcome Home — Radical Face
06. Equestrian — U.S. Royalty
07. Furr — Blitzen Trapper
08. Home — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
09. Magazine — Joshua James
10. Wagon Wheel — Old Crow Medicine Show
11. To Go Home — M. Ward
12. The Cave — Mumford & Sons
13. Boy With A Coin — Iron & Wine
14. Rise — Eddie Vedder
15. The Only Living Boy in New York — Simon & Garfunkel
16. Blue Ridge Mountains — Fleet Foxes
17. All My Days — Alexi Murdoch
18. If I Had a Boat — James Vincent McMorrow
19. To Ohio — The Low Anthem
20. Your Rocky Spine — Great Lake Swimmers
21. Hymn #101 — Joe Pug
22. Re: Stacks — Bon Iver
23. The Funeral — Band of Horses