There are a few Bob Dylan songs featured on this mix from five years ago. The great "Abandoned Love" was left off his classic mid 70s album Desire. Johnny Cash covers "It Ain't Me Babe" with mariachi horns and The Byrds are well into their "country" period on their cover of Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere".
Other stuff: Jerry Butler's uplifting "Only The Strong Survive", Randy Newman's take of the Steven Foster standard "Old Kentucky Home", Stereolab's dreamy "Cybele's Reverie", Plastic Bertrand's Gallic Beach Boys send-up "Ca Plane Pour Moi", Jay-Z's Neptunes-produced "I Just Wanna Love You (Give It To Me)", Bo Carter's suggestive "Banana In Your Fruitbasket", Ghostface KIllah's triumphant "One", Prince's live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Maybe Your Baby", Stevie Wonder's rare non-album track "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land", America's Neil Young-influenced "A Horse With No Name", Neil Young's chipper "Saddle Up The Palomino", Neil Diamond's exuberant "Coming To America", The Clash covering Junior Murvin's "Police & Thieves", Curtis Mayfield's gentle "Makings Of You", Jack Nitzche's instrumental "The Lonely Surfer", a live version of "Ol' 55" by Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington with a subdued take of the standard "Mood Indigo", and The Three Degrees with a cover of The Chantels' "Maybe" complete with a great spoken word introduction.
