THE RACKET : LIST 22 - A Little Bit Loose

I’ll be the first to say it: this playlist is a bit scattered. A bit loose even. Like the pieces are all there but they haven’t been assembled perfectly. Everything sort of smashed together to hide the gaps in between.

And you know what? I like it that way. I like the way it starts with an almost gospel track by Allen Toussaint and then cedes the stage to a one-time only, abstract dance party. I like that there’s a choppy reggae track with a sax solo pulled of an Etta James record. I like that somehow Shintaro Sakamoto’s Japanese disco-pop somehow leads the way to Zappa and to Nancy Sinatra. I like that I thought I’d never hear a new John Prine track again, but then Kurt Vile released one last collaboration with the master and it makes me tear up for what we’ve lost every single time.

Everything feels a little scattered right now and this messy bushwack through decades and continents and genres feels just about right.