My husband is the best CD mixer ever. I think it stems from his 
wide-ranging curiosity about all things pop culture. He’s open to every music genre and has an encyclopedic knowledge of who recorded what and when, where and with whom. He even made tape mixes back in the olden days — not easy! But now he’s got CDs and computers and iTunes and he comes up with some brilliant mixes. (In fact, five years later people still say that the mix he created for our wedding favors was the best. Ever.) So you can guess what my Valentine’s present was: A lovely, lovely mix of some beautifully quirky love songs. Like The Smithereens’ “A Girl Like You” and Art Garfunkel’s “I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever).” There’s also “Message of Love” by The Pretenders, “This and That” from Michael Penn,Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris’s “This Is Us” and some Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison plus a song I’ve never heard, “Renaissance Eyes” by Don Dixon. This CD is a keeper. My husband, too.
Coffee with Cathy
Pour a cup & take a break
Coffee with Cathy 
What a sweet thing to do. I’d keep him too.
Awesome idea!! Fat free and entertaining!! xo
What a great gift! So thoughtful, romantic and useful too.
Sounds awesome. You are living with a musicologist!
I love the term “musicologist!” What a great word. And I never thought of these CDs as fat-free gifts, but I sure will now. Thanks for all the kind words.
Cool!! Sounds like a keeper… both of them. You should post a list of his mixes sometime, that would be great, then we could copy it!
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~Tabitha~
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I love a good mix CD. You’re so lucky that you have a husband that is so good at making them.
That list makes me want to turn on my I-tunes and make a mix CD myself.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your interest!
I have done three notable mixes – one for our wedding, one celebrating our grandbaby’s birth and the Valentine’s Day mix. I’ll pass the playlists along to Cathy on Tuesday and she can post them.