Boomerang!

Come back you little raven
And bite my face
--Misfits

A twelve-track mix made to persuade my Muxtape pals to come back out and play. All tunes feature the theme of "come back." The dominant genre here is old school soul, rhythm & blues, (Ink Spots, Sam Cooke, Junior Walker, Al Green, etc.), but The Ramones, Misfits and Roy Orbison manage a visit as well. Mix Tape Community pals, the water's fine out here, and 8tracks is a great place to play!

Boomerang!

1. I'll Come Running Back To You / Sam Cooke
2. Do The Boomerang / Junior Walker and the All Stars
3. Call Me / Al Green
4. Come Back Baby / Jefferson Airplane
5. She'll Come Back / The Turtles
6. Lubie / The Who
7. Come Back Kind of Loving / Little Milton
8. Come Back, Baby / The Ramones
9. Come Back / Misfits
10. Come Back To Me (My Love) / Roy Orbison
11. When The Swollows Come Back To Capistrano / Ink Spots
12. That's When I'll Come Back To You / Louis Armstrong

UPDATE: I listened to this mix 2x as I drove to Metamora and back to get the mail. I really like this one. Some random thoughts.

The Sam Cooke piece is a great opener, and the chromatic guitar intro MUST be a deliberate quote of "When The Swallows Come Back to Capistrano," which is also the penultimate tune on the mix. More on that later. The next track is just fantastic--Junior Walker's "Shotgun" is burned into the American unconscious, and this track is very similar. I love the way it starts with two stilletto pickup notes that have you disoriented for the first phrase or so. Jamerson tears up the bass on this track--that man was a national treasure. The B3/Leslie sound carries us over into the Al Green tune, which slows things down a bit. Jorma Kaukonen knocks his knucles around this great Jefferson Airplane riff and sings it, too, I think, then we get The Turtles track which sounds like Islamic surf guitar if there were such a thing. On "Lubie (Come Back Home)" we hear some early Who which is almost early enough to be by The Detours, but you can hear Keith Moon doing that floor tom thing he does that signaled his wild, wild ride to come. The Little Milton track is a corny little thing, but the backup vocals are priceless, and the fade out is a fantastic transition to the Ramones track (which is from 1989). The drums at the onset of the next track by The Misfits are interesting for punk; you almost make it to the end of the track without noticing that Danzig is singing "Come back you little raven / And bite my face." My favorite transition is from this phrase to the dooby-doo-wahs of the Orbison track. Yeah! This one slides comfortably into the chromatic guitar intro of the Ink Spots track, mentioned above; gotta love those vocals. And Louie Armstrong ends it with some fantastic Dixieland-inspired dialogue and jamming. I love this mix--hope you like it, too.