Evan O’Television

For the one-year anniversary of the Mixtape Friday series we’re going back to basics:  great songs  in the verse-chorus-verse mode by rock outfits and singer-songwriter types. Much like my first posted O’Pinionated Mix “Lost Verses” and July’s “Lost Causes”, the songs are a combination of classic favorites by folks like Tom Waits and R.E.M. as [...]

For the return of Mixtape Fridays, I have let the jazz and soul masters take command and guide us into the spring.  It takes several  tangents (many of them African), includes a track Nas did with his father, a Sade song off my favorite new album of 2010, and opens with a great Nina Simone [...]