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Remember when you loaded your sweet boom-box up with 8 D batteries and lugged it down to the beach so that you could listen to your favorite jams while getting your Hawaiian Tropic SPF 4 tanning oil covered body just one more shade darker?  Ah, those were the days.  With Summer now in full swing, I can’t help but look back on those beach days when all you needed was a towel and some tunes.  In honor of those lazy days in the sand, sun, and surf, I have put together a few playlists with some of my old and new favorites.  Enjoy and share some of your favorites, too!

Bypass Backspin (songs of my youth)

–Summertime: DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince

–Scenario: A Tribe Called Quest

–Hip-hop Junkies: Nice and Smooth

–Saturday: De La Soul

–Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat): Digable Planets

–Passin’ me by: Pharcyde

–Vivrant Thing: Q-Tip

–Here Come the Lords: Lords of the Underground

–Born to Roll: Master Ace

–Posse on Broadway: Sir-Mix-A-Lot

–Get it Together: Beastie Boys

–Country Grammar: Nelly

–Around the Way Girl: LL Cool J

–Party Up: DMX

–Deja Vu: Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz

–Everyday People: Arrested Development

–Misterdobalina: Del Tha Funky Homosapien

–Breathe: Fabulous

Where the Road Ends (songs of my no-so-youth)

–Awake my Body: Alexander

–Windows are Rolled Down: Amos Lee

–Daydreaming: Middle Brother

–Sydney (I’ll Come Running): Brett Dennen

–Once and Future Carpenter: The Avett Brothers

–Old Before Your Time: Ray Lamontagne

–Cornbread and Butterbeans: Carolina Chocolate Drops

–Rebel Side of Heaven: Langhorne Slim

–Getting Over Your Love: Holy Ghost Tent Revival

–Raise a Rukus: Old Crow Medicine Show

–Time Spent in Los Angeles: Dawes

–Little Silver Ring: The Samples (an oldie but a goodie)

–Lost in my Mind: The Head and the Heart

–My Baby Don’t Lie: Nicole Atkins

–Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa: Vampire Weekend

–Marlene: Lightspeed Champion

–Breath of Love: David Mayfield Parade

–At the Beach: The Avett Brothers