Released 22 December 2011 ~ on my 60th birthday.
Previous volumes – 50 Songs (2001) and 55 Songs (2006).
DISC ONE
1 Dawn Is A Feeling – Moody Blues
2 It’s A Beautiful Day Today – Moby Grape
3 Sing Your Life – Morrisey
4 Down In Mississippi – Mavis Staples
5 Prenzlauerberg – Beirut
6 Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us – Allison Krause w/ Robert Plant
7 Stay Tuned – Robert Wyatt
8 Alone Again Or – Love
9 The Snow White Diner – Handsome Family
10 Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
11 Disco Boy – Shantel
12 #9 Dream – John Lennon
13 Harry the Head – The Residents
14 Leaving New York – REM
15 Smalltown – Lou Reed & John Cale
16 Children’s Work – Dessa
17 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again – Bob Dylan
18 San Francisco B.C. – Silver Jews
DISC TWO
19 Troubled Soul – Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
20 Another Night In – Tindersticks
21 The Jeweler – Pearls Before Swine
22 The Family Tradition – Sharron Kraus
23 Baby Sister – Damien Rice
24 The Fat Lady Of Limbourg – Brian Eno
25 Cosmia – Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
26 Cripple And The Starfish – Antony & The Johnsons
27 Nature Boy – Kurt Elling
28 You’re The Top – Patricia Barber
29 What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life – Frank Sinatra
30 Picture In A Frame – Tom Waits
31 I’m So Depressed – Abner Hay
32 Doin’ the Raccoon – George Olsen (1928)
DISC THREE
33 Kh’vel Oyston Di Shikh – Chava Alberstein & the Klezmatics
34 Paint It Black – Rolling Stones
35 Clap Your Hands – Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
36 The Floppy Boot Stomp – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
37 Road To Nowhere – Talking Heads
38 Written On The Subway Wall / Little Star – Dion
39 Venus – Television
40 Tears Of Rage – The Band
41 For Other Eyes – Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
42 Koeeoaddi There – The Incredible String Band
43 Intoxicated – Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan
44 Raoui (The Storyteller) – Souad Massi
45 I Feel Just Like A Child – Devendra Banhart
46 Affection – Jonathan Richman
47 Let’s Get Lost – Chet Baker
DISC FOUR
48 In My Life – The Beatles
49 Spring Wind – Greg Brown
50 Here It is – Leonard Cohen
51 I’m Going in – Lhasa De Sela
52 Can’t Cry Hard Enough – Marvin Etzione
53 Why Worry – Everly Brothers
54 The Golden Gate – Anjani
55 Days – Ray Davies
56 I’m Coming Home – Carmen McRae
57 Crack of Doom – The Tiger Lillies
58 Wonderlust King – Gogol Bordello
59 (Life Is A) Cabaret – Liza Minelli
60 In The End – Justin Bond & The Hungry March Band
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bonus instrumentals
