Wombat Blues, Vol. 3

A little known Wombat fact is that I love (love) making playlists. If this were the 80's, mix tapes would positively multiply about my house, car and backpack. Instead of this blog, I would be personally forcing a Sharpie-marked cassette into your hands, insisting that, no, really, you'll love it!

My playlist alter-persona rotates through The Musical Moron Twins and Rob Gordon. And, yes, I can easily organize my music autobiographically. But as Rob says, "the making of a great compilation tape...can take ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick it off with a killer to grab attention. Then you gotta take it up a notch." There are, indeed, a lot of rules.

Great mix-tapes are labors of love. They are simultaneously homage to your favorite musicians and a form of self expression. Using another person's words to say what you feel is a delicate thing. It's a  unique triumph when you hit upon that balance of tribute and originality.

This is a blues playlist I made a few years ago and it continues to be the favorite of all my anthologies. I obsessively worked with it for days before being satisfied with both its variety and cohesive theme.

So, it is my pleasure to present to you some rockin' Wombat Blues:

1. Jace Everett - Bad Things
2. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
3. The Black Keys - When the Lights Go Out
4. The Beautiful Girls - Girl, Lately So Many Things Have Been Changing
5. Rocco Deluca and the Burden - Swing Low
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Dirty Pool
7. B.B. King - Chains and Things
8. Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe
9. R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie
10. Lightnin' Hopkins - Got to Move Your Baby
11. Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
12. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
13. Dan Auerbach - Street Walkin'
14. Scott H. Biram - Blood, Sweat and Murder
15. John Mayall - Room to Move
16. The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler
17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)

PS - You will indeed need room to groove and move to #15. I dare you to keep that head from bobbing.