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# Blue Motor Lodge
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/blue-motor-lodge/
- Published: 2012-05-19T03:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:51:07.000Z
- Description: Busted dub + vintage ballads<br> 57 minutes
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Old Mixtapes

I remember racing against the sun to reach the Badlands before nightfall, but I didn’t make it because I kept pulling over to photograph lonely gas stations and motels in towns with names like Alliance and Interior. When I finally arrived at the edge of South Dakota, the bluffs and spires lay out there unseen, crouching in the dark. Here are two pitched-down dub 45s that meander through a field of mid-century blues and ballads, paired with big sheets of reverb, vinyl crackle, moments of silence, and five variations on the idea of a blue moon. Best served in headphones after dark.

- A Rocket in Dub – Rocket #8 on 33⅓
- Betty Lavette – Let Me Down Easy
- Don Percival – One More Kiss
- Roy Orbison – Crying
- Dave “Diddle” Day – Blue Moon Baby
- Pole – Fahren on 33⅓
- The Cascades – Rhythm of the Rain
- Françoise Hardy – Voilà
- Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best
- The Ronettes – Keep On Dancin’
- Dirty Beaches – True Blue
- Oscar Peterson – Blue Moon
- Elvis Presley – Blue Moon in Kentucky
- Santo & Johnny – Blue Moon
- Dean Martin – Blue Moon
- Big American Loop #3

#### Blue Motor Lodge

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