For your momma

So Sunday is Mother's Day (yes it is) and you should definitely get soemthing to tell your momma you love her. (Happy Mother's Day Mom!)

Or you could just send her here. (Well not physically send, unless it is like TRON, but rather send her to the site.)

From NPR comes a music mix for Mother's Day. Readers of the blog I had in my mind before starting this one will remember how much I enjoyed and recommended NPR's holiday mix.

Mother's Mix: It's The Least We Could Do

May 1, 2009 - This year, give Mom a link to our continuous music mix — the gift that costs you nothing and involves no thought whatsoever.
Everyone has had a mother at some point. She might be a benevolent and nurturing giver of kisses, or a coldly manipulative taskmaster, or even a clump of wire onto which you clung helplessly as part of a twisted social experiment. But chances are good that you still feel the pull of guilt and social obligation surrounding Mother's Day.

So why not tell Mom you love her — without doing so directly, of course — and send her a link to this page? These four hours of motherhood-themed songs (from Smokey Robinson to Dvorak, from The Pretenders to Lucinda Williams) will give her something to listen to while she waits in vain for your phone call. To hear the stream, click here.

Here are the songs included:

• "Mother and Child Reunion," Paul Simon, Paul Simon
• "Mama Don't Allow," Joey DeFrancesco, Ballads and Blues
• "Mama Told Me Not to Come," Randy Newman, 12 Songs
• "I'll Always Love My Momma," The Intruders, Intruders' Greatest Hits (RCA 68161)
• "Mother," Kasey Chambers, Wayward Angel
• "Montsalvatge: Lullaby," Julian Lloyd Webber, cello Lullaby (Philips 442 426)
• Brahms "Sacred Lullaby," Jessye Norman, soprano The Jessye Norman collection: Brahms and Schuman (Philips 4504)
• "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, One Hell of a Ride
• "Mother Rose," Patti Smith, Trampin'
• "Play It Momma," Mary Lou Williams, Zoning
• "My Yiddishe Momme," Terry Gibbs, Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
• "Mother Nature's Son," The Beatles, White Album
• "Mama's Opry," Iris Dement, Infamous Angel
• "Hey Mama," Kanye West, Late Registration
• "Mother's Little Helper," Rolling Stones, Aftermath UK
• "Mamma," Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, Pavarotti Songbook (London/Decca 433513)
• "Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother," Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
• "Mama You Sweet," Lucinda Williams, West
• "The Glamorous Life," Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music Original Broadway Cast Recording
• "Mama You've Been on My Mind," Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3
• "Part of Your Own," John Gorka, Between Five and Seven
• "Mother of Mine," Susan McKeown, Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg, Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers & Motherhood
• "Grieg: Grandmother's Minuet," Emil Gilels, piano, Grieg: Lyric Pieces (DG 449721)
• "Ravel: Mother Goose: The Fairy Garden," Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Jarvi (Telarc 80601)
• "My Mother's Eyes," Arthur Prysock, Arthur Prysock: Compact Jazz
• "Bessie," The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Crossing
• "Nielsen: "The Fog Is Lifting," Michala Petri, recorder, Incidental music to "The Mother" (RCA 68769)
• "Mother," John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band
ID BREAK: Jeff McCord from
• "John Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God," Cambridge Singers/John Rutter, Hail Gladdening Light (Collegium 113)
• "Puccini: Chrysanthemums," Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 431680)
• "Dear Ruth," Cedar Walton Trio, Midnight Waltz
• "Mama Bee," Roni Ben-Hur, Signature
ID BREAK: Bob Studebaker
• "Johannes Brahms: Lullaby," Anne Sofie Von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Brahms Lieder (DG 429727)
• "Mozart: 12 variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" ("Mother, I could tell you")," Ingrid Haebler, piano, Complete Mozart Piano Music (Philips 464 850)
• "To The Break of Sean," Atmosphere, Headshots: Seven
ID BREAK: Mark Wheat
• "O Superman," Laurie Anderson, Big Science
• "The Child," Alex Gopher, Child Remixes
• "Song for My Mother," Walt Weiskopf Nonet, Song for My Mother
ID BREAK: Rhonda Hamilton from
• "Mama Don't Allow," Dan Barrett/Rebecca Kilgore, Being a Bear: Jazz for the Whole Family
• "Mama's Got a Girlfriend Now," Ben Harper, Welcome to the Cruel World
• "Anonymous: "My little sweet darling," Montserrat Figueras, soprano, Ninna Nanna (AliaVox 9826)
• " Dvorak: Lullaby," Julian Lloyd Webber, cello, Lullaby (Philips 442 426)
• "I Wish I Was Your Mother," Alejandro Escovedo, Gravity (Expanded Edition)
• "Tell Mama," Etta James, Best of Etta James
• "Mother, Mother," Tracy Bonham, The Burdens of Being Upright
• "Lou Harrison: Pastorale to my mother," Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales (MusicMasters 67089)
• "Cyril Scott: Lullaby," Julian Lloyd Webber, cello, Lullaby (Philips 442 426)
• "Forever Young," The Pretenders, Last of the Independents
• "Mama's Boy," Suzi Quatro, The Best of Suzi Quatro
• "Mother Earth," The Stylistics, Can You Dig It? Soul Hits of the '70s
• "Mother Alvin," Dave Alvin, King of California
• "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth," Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
• "Mama Hated Diesels," Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen, Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites
• "Mama Tried," Merle Haggard, 16 Biggest Hits
• "Shop Around," Smokey Robinson, The Best of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
• "For Mama," The D.D. Jackson Trio, Rhythm-Dance
• "Say Little Mama Say," Jimmy Cobb's Mob, Only for the Pure at Heart
• "Schubert: Lullaby," Julian Lloyd Webber, cello, Lullaby(Philips 442 426)
• "Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me #4," Joshua Bell, violin, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (Sony 87894)
• "Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me," Anna Netrebko, soprano, Souvenirs (DG 12217)