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In honor of the fact that "Raise Your Lantern High" (i.e., Be the Light in My Lantern Pt. 2) is coming sooo soooon – and with many thanks to

nerak_rose who pointed me in the right direction to finally figure out how to make an online fanmix! – I've put together the official Be the Light in My Lantern Playlist.

These are the songs from which I drew the quotes that head up each chapter of the story (and yes, that's so dorky, but I'm a singer and I really do think in music sometimes!) It's a quirky mix of a few well-known classics (the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, etc.) and a whole lot of relatively unknown, wonderful singer-songwriters I've discovered or even been lucky enough to know personally over the years. Definitely gives insight into my music interests; also gives insight into what I've been listening to over the five years it's taken to write this story! A labor of love, and an homage to singers I admire. Okay, I'll shut up now and link to it:

You can find the tracklist and a link to the mix here.

Or just go straight to listening to it here.

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ETA: 8tracks, which hosted those playlists, has since stopped streaming, so that link may eventually stop working. So instead I'll add the list of tracks here (though without links) for those who are interested:

BE THE LIGHT IN MY LANTERN STORY MIX

1. Hello Goodbye – The Beatles
        (for Chapter 1: The Newest Member of the Order)
2. Si Tu Disais – Calexico
        (for Chapter 2: Cleaning Days)
3. Bird on a Wire – k.d. lang (cover of Leonard Cohen)
        (for Chapter 3: Werewolves and Woes)
4. Become You – Indigo Girls
        (for Chapter 4: The Captive and the Cousin)
5. Angel with a Broken Wing – Jennie Stearns
        (for Chapter 5: Surviving October)
6. Lantern – Josh Ritter
        (for Chapter 6: The Classics Reimagined + became the title to the whole story!)
7. Feeling the Pull – The Swell Season
        (for Chapter 7: Feeling the Pull)
[The song for Chapter 8: 'Tis the Season would be "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriphs," which of course doesn't exist...though maybe I'll do a little demo recording at some point...]
8. Rexroth's Daughter – Joan Baez (cover of Greg Brown)
        (for Chapter 9: Who You Believe Yourself to Be)
9. Let's Do Everything Again For The First Time – Of Montreal
        (for Chapter 10: Everything for the First Time)
10. Lover, You Should Have Come Over – Jeff Buckley
        (for Chapter 11: A Cautious Distance)
11. Heart Full of Holes – Mark Knopfler
        (for Chapter 12: Healing Wounds)
12. How Old – Ginger Redcliff
        (for Chapter 13: Breakout)
13. Waiting for My Real Life to Begin – Colin Hay
        (for Chapter 14: A Little Hope)
14. Sweet on Me – Aly Tadros/The Sweetness
        (for Chapter 15: Things Unsaid)
15. Here We Go Again – Angus & Julia Stone
        (for Chapter 16: The Calm Before the Storm)
16. Everywhere I Go – Richie Stearns
        (for Chapter 17: The Storm)
17. How Will He Find Me – Deb Talan
        (for Chapter 18: The Aftermath)

(RAISE YOUR LANTERN HIGH STORY MIX track list is in a separate post, HERE.)