This mix was inspired by my early 1990s childhood - the music I heard on the radio (LL Cool J, Janet Jackson, The Sundays, Magnetic Fields), on television (Northern Exposure, Adventures of Pete & Pete), in films that I watched on VHS (Toys) - and the music I carried with me on cassette that I listened to via my Sony Walkman.  The playlist starts with a live track by Weather Report, the legendary jazz band formed by saxophonist Wayne Shorter. My father, also a saxophonist and who was taught in Los Angeles in the 1960s from a young age by Lennie Niehaus, made me listen to Weather Report records.  It was in my 30s that I began to develop a deeper interest and appreciation for this music.  I've always been a nostalgic person and still find comfort and respite in the music that shaped my childhood and adolescence, and my interests in music and culture.  The music of Enya, The Sundays and Natalie Merchant in particular would transport me out of what I felt were the walls that trapped me in the neighborhoods I grew up in, not yet realizing that whatever problems I had would follow me - or that I would bring them with me. Either way, this is just a snippet of the music that is in my permanent rotation throughout the year, some of which is more modern, music I was introduced to and/or heard in my 20s (Kings of Leon) and in my 30s (Black Marble). 
Playlist: 
"Black Market" (Live) -  Weather Report
"Winter Reveries" -  Shirley Walker Orchestra (Toys Soundtrack)
"The Closing of the Year" - Wendy & Lisa (Toys Soundtrack)
"Forever Night Shade Mary" - Latin Playboys* (in the beautiful scene from Northern Exposure of Dr. Joel Fleischman on the Staten Island Ferry back in NYC; also his last episode)
"I Kicked a Boy" - The Sundays
"Around the Way Girl" - LL Cool J
"Little Star" -  Stina Nordenstam (Romeo & Juliet soundtrack, Baz Luhrman's)
"Arizona" - Kings of Leon
"A Different Arrangement" -  Black Marble
"Drive on Driver" - Magnetic Fields
"Ebudae" - Enya (Toys soundtrack)
"Gone til it's Gone" - Janet Jackson
"Carnival" - Natalie Merchant
"Ten Believers" - Latin Playboys
"D.W. Suite" - Lindsey Buckingham (in a famous Northern Exposure scene where all the men of the town run naked in freezing cold after the ice breaks).
"Thicker than Water" - Todd Hannigan (from the Thicker than Water documentary soundtrack)

*Latin Playboys are from East Los! (same guys from Los Lobos)

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The Sundays -  Here's Where the Story Ends 
Leon Lowman - Morning Song
Nouvelle Vague -  I'll Melt With You 
Jon Brion - Elephant Parade
Josh Rouse - Saturday
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