For Buffalo Plaid Cowboys On Blue Mornings

For a while, I've been working on this particular mixtape and I finally finished it tonight. I recorded it the other night after tweaking the track listing for the umpteenth time. It sounds pretty awesome and I'm quite pleased with it. Yet I also have to brag about the packaging because I did a pretty sweet job on that as well. If you recall, I've never actually made a mixtape that was an audio-visual experience. It wasn't until I interviewed one of the record store clerks that I learned about the fine art of the visual mixtape. So I decided to get crafty and here's what I did:
This is a burlap cover for the cassette that I sewed myself. I picked up a needle and thread and actually stitched it without covering my fingers in pinpricks. It's good to know that the Home Economics award I won in junior high still holds true.

Just another photograph of the burlap and the cassette case.

The two pieces together! The cassette case was first covered in red cardstock. Onto that, I glued the fabric, which was actually recycled from a shirt I bought at the thrift store. Further recycling, I took a piece of the shirt and made a mini-pocket on the front of the cassette case. To clean it up a bit, I added some black ribbon for definition.

Since this was a 90 minute cassette, I was able to put on a bunch of tracks, much to my delight. In order to provide the liner notes, I opted to use a piece of brown paper bag and write out the track listing onto that, as you can see in the above photograph.

For Buffalo Plaid Cowboys On Blue Mornings
A-side
1. Sufjan Stevens - "Riffs and Variations on a Single Note..."
2. Kate Maki - "Blue Morning"
3. Thunder in the Valley - "Come Now Virginia"
4. The High Llamas - "Doo-Wop Property"
5. John Doe - "Golden State"
6. House of Mercy Band - "Trouble Coming"
7. Jackie Greene - "Honey I Been Thinking About You"
8. Elvis Presley - "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
9. Bob Dylan - "Lay, Lady, Lay"
10. Eilen Jewell - "Too Hot To Sleep"
11. Rosewood Thieves - "Honey, Stay Awhile"
12. The Jayhawks - "Bad Time To Be In Love"
13. Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"

B-side
1. Tom Waits - "Ol' 55"
2. Kings of Leon - "Slow Night, So Long"
3. Ricky Nelson - "Lonesome Town"
4. Eddie Cochran - "Cotton Picker"
5. Amos Milbourn - "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer"
6. The Beach Boys - "Heroes and Villans" (Alternate Take)
7. Bright Eyes - "Tourist Trap"
8. The Comforters - "Lazy Sundays"
9. Cat Power - "The Greatest"
10. The Beatles - "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
11. Queen - "'39"
12. The Rolling Stones - "Wild Horses"