Friday Random 10: What, It's Friday Already? Edition

1. Quality of Mercy--Michelle Shocked
2. Susan's Adventures--Diane Dugaw
3. Yesterday is Here--Tom Waits
4. Sunday Morning Coming Down--Johnny Cash
5. In the Lord's Arms--Ben Harper
6. Over and Under--Ellen Furman
7. I Don't Believe You--The Magnetic Fields
8. Land of 1000 Dances--Wilson Pickett
9. Bone Machine--The Pixies
10. Used to You--Ani DiFranco

Random notes and observatios: "Sunday Morning Coming Down" is a Kris Kristofferson song; this is perhaps the only instance I can think of where the Johnny Cash version of a song isn't better than the original. Oh, wait, there's also his cover of "No Expectations," about which the less said the better.

Diane Dugaw is an English professor at the U of Oregon; she was, once upon a time, an accomplished folk singer, and her Dangerous Examples--Fighting & Sailing Women in Song is as nice a collection of songs about female soldiers and sailors as you'll find anywhere.