Making 'slow jams' for someone

One morning last week, I woke up with an idea. That idea was to make a slow jam. Now many of you who knew me back in high school, I made slow jams (a cassette tape of different slow songs). That's what I was known for. And like many of you, I had a theme with each one and they were never the same. They may have had the same songs, but never all the same songs in the same order.

My mission was to make a slow jam for a special gal that I've been "courting" here in Columbus. The only thing I knew about her music taste was that she liked country music. Now I'm a big fan of all types of music. My ipod and cd collection ranges from everything from r&b, rap, soul, oldies, jazz, big band, classical, etc. Even though I have a good number (30) country songs, the songs were old stuff. So I asked for help of my ex-girlfriend who got me into listening to country. Well I find out that she never really was into country. Great! But it's okay, because she helped me select songs.

In the past, in order for a slow jam to be worthy of "Chad's slow jam" status, it had to flow between songs, words had to work perfectly and all be relative to each other, but most of all, it had to have the mixture of songs that represented my personality. So I spoke to some old school slow jam veteranos and I asked them for so advice since it has been about 12 years since I last made a slow jam and those things were on a cassette tapes that had two sides. Two sides meant I could do a few sub themes, transitions with sound bytes of classic lines, etc. (You would have to find these relics of creativity since I never make copies) They were excited to hear that I was back in the business of making slow jams but not too happy when I told them I was adding country music. At that point they didn't want anything to do with it.

So without their help, and going through all my cds and choosing a few country songs, I finished it! Here is the song list:

1. Something About Her...Brad Paisley
2. You Had Me from Hello...Kenny Chesney
3. Waiting All My LIfe...Rascal Flatts
4. Need to Be Next to You...Sara Evans
5. Just to See You Smile...Tim McGraw
6. By Your Side...Sade
7. Waiting In Vain...Bob Marley & The Wailers
8. What It Takes...Ron Sexsmith
9. Lovesong...The Cure
10. Deborah...Dave Edmunds
11. The Best of My Love...Eagles
12. Debra...Joe Kidd
13. Why Can't I?...Liz Phair
14. Sooner or Later...Popium
15. When You Know...Shawn Colvin
16. Quando, Quando, Quando...Michael Buble and Nelly Furtado
17. That's All...Michael Buble

Probably by looking at the list you know who it is for, and if you know the songs, you know what the theme is. I hope she likes it.