Her Memory of the Future

A very special playlist...

Anne Michelle Bailey (1958 - 2025)

My twin sister, Anne Michelle Bailey, passed away on Saturday, June 21, 2025. The following is her playlist heard at her Celebration of Life on Saturday, November 8, 2025. It is no mistake that this list resonates with the 1960s and ‘70s, the center of that golden age of popular music. Michelle was gifted and unique, stubborn and willful, selfless and selfish, intentional and determined; she was a special spirit captured in the flaw of human form, liberated into that spiritual energy where she belonged all along. Rave on, Michelle, wherever you, Anno, Daddy, Bigga, and Keith are.

• “Lucy & Linus,” The Vince Guaraldi Trio, from A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy Records, 1964)

• “Carol of the Bells,” George Winston, from December (Windham Hill Records, 1982)

• “Tears of a Clown,” Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, from Make it Happen (Tamla Records, 1970)

• “Little Wing,” Jimi Hendrix Experience, from Axis: Bold as Love (Reprise Records, 1967)

• “Country Comfort,” Rod Stewart, from Gasoline Alley (Mercury Records, 1970)

• “Tiny Dancer,” Elton John, from Madman Across the Water (Universal, 1971)

• “I Feel the Earth Move,” Carole King, from Tapestry (A&M Records, 1971)

• “Carefree Highway,” Gordon Lightfoot, from Sundown (Reprise Records, 1973)

• “Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long Time),” Elton John, from Honky Château (Universal Records, 1972)

• “Songbird,” Eve Cassidy, from Eva by Heart (Blix Street Records, 1997)

• “Still They Ride,” Journey, from Escape (Columbia Records, 1981)

• “The Holly and the Ivy,” George Winston, from December (Windham Hill, 1982)

• “Days Like This,” Van Morrison, from Days Like This (Mercury, 1995)

• “Reason to Believe,” Rod Stewart, from Every Picture Tells a Story (Mercury, 1971)

• “Silver Springs,” Fleetwood Mac, from The Dance (Reprise, 1997)

• “While We Cry,” Kenny Wayne Shephard, from Ledbetter Heights (Giant Records, 1995)

• “These Days,” Jackson Browne, from For Everyman (Asylum Records, 1973)

• “So Far Away,” Carole King, from Tapestry (A&M Records, 1971)

• “Little Wing,” Stevie Ray Vaughan, from The Sky is Crying (Reprise, 1991)

• “Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters,” Elton John, from Honky Château (Universal Records, 1972)

• “Stone,” Ashley McBryde, from Never Will (Warner Music, 2020)

• “Träumerei,” Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen, op. 15. Vladimir Horowitz, from Horowitz in Moscow (Deutsche Grammophon, 1986)