Mama's mix

Editor's note: The Slow-Cooked Sentence is devoting itself to song this week as part of its Joy+Ride, a month-long quest that involves planting, polishing and singing.

"Casi05" courtesy of INDEED.

Thirty songs plus half
a day all for me equals
sweet, sweet sanity.

The time's been spent, but I can still share my songs. My favorite is "Half Acre," I can listen to The Kinks all day long, and you've got to check out the lyrics to "A Chat With Your Mother."

• I'll Fly Away, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
• Julia, The Beatles
• Mother Nature's Son, The Beatles
• Half Acre, Hem
• Your Mother Should Know, The Beatles
• Ghost Town/Poem For Eva, Bill Frisell
• God Bless The Child, Billie Holiday
• Sunspots, Bob Mould
• I'll Come Running, Brian Eno
• All Mama's Children, Carl Perkins
• What A Wonderful World, With L Dan Zanes & Friends
• Leave It Like It Is, David Wilcox
• Do You Realize??, Flaming Lips
• White Winter Hymnal, Fleet Foxes
• After Midnight, J.J. Cale
• Crazy Mama, J.J. Cale
• Boom Boom, John Lee Hooker
• Hot Potatoes, The Kinks
• Have A Cuppa Tea, The Kinks
• Bonjour, Bonjour, L'Autobus A Vapeur
• Our House, Madness
• You Are My Sunshine, Norman Blake
• That Was Your Mother, Paul Simon
• Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon
• A Chat with Your Mother, Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen
• Inní mér syngur vitleysingur, Sigur Ros
• I Wish, Stevie Wonder
• Isn't She Lovely, Stevie Wonder
• What Child Is This, Vince Guaraldi
• I Took My Mom To the Prom, The Ziggens