A not-so-new, but perhaps seasonally appropriate playlist. This had a long gestation period, like most of my mixes, but in an unfortunate coincidence of timing, I was finalizing it on 8tracks just as news of the the Orlando nightclub shootings last June was breaking. By that point, I was kind of wedded to the title, but it seemed in very poor taste to publicize it, so I let it sit. I still like the playlist, even if I strayed outside the Corvidae family to populate it.

Tracks:

1. Los Campesions!, The Black Bird, The Dark Slope (Hello Sadness, 2009)
2. The Mountain Goats, Magpie (The Sunset Tree, 2000)
3. The Gothic Archies, Crows (from The Vile Village) (The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2006)
4. Yo La Tengo, Tiny Birds (Summer Sun, 2003)
5. Peter Gabriel, This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) (So, 1986)
6. The Ramones, Surfin’ Bird (Rocket To Russia, 1977)
7. The Coathangers, Jaybird (Larceny & Old Lace, 2011)
8. Neko Case, Magpie To the Morning (Middle Cyclones, 2009)
9. Doc Watson & Merle Watson, Cuckoo Bird (More Music from the Florida Folklife Collection, 1977)
10. The White Stripes, Little Bird (De Stijl, 2000)
11. Neil Young & Crazy Horse, (Zuma, 1975)
12. Ass Ponys, Dead Fly the Birds (The Known Universe, 1996)
13. Quasi, Bye Bye Blackbird (American Gong, 2010)