Beach Blanket Boom Box
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
Evolution of a Fan 