My 2010 mixed CD was the second of two mixes I’d made of nothing but cover songs. These were always fun to make. I titled this one, “You Can Judge A Band By Its Cover.” I used stock photos for the front and back, and had great fun adding the type and effects to make it look like part of the book. For “Wanderlust Vol. 5,” I used my own photos for the front and back covers.
For the 2009 CD mix covers, I used stock photo art for the “Glam-R-Us” mix of glam rock tunes , and for “Wanderlust Vol. 4” I created another collage — this time using vintage postcards – for the “Wanderlust Vol. 4” mix. All the postcards included on this cover are from cities or places mentioned in the songs included on the mix.
I invested the most time in the 2008 mix cover, but had the most fun with it. My hometown of Muncie was known as Middletown, the focus of an ongoing series of studies since the 1920’s that showed Muncie as the economic and social barometer for the rest of the country.
For the 2007 mixed CD exchange, I got ambitious (or perhaps just indecisive), and made three mixes. To supplement the main mix, I made Wanderlust Vol. 2, and a mix of cover songs – a popular theme in our mix exchange.
For the 2006 mixed CD exchange, I created a more traditional CD cover, with the track listing on the back. For this one, I used my own original photos taken from my first visit to Joshua Tree National Park a couple years before.
2005 was my first year participating in this mixed CD exchange. I included both discs on one cover, which was folded at the middle and opened top-to-bottom.