Any novel about the history of country music could not exist without that music; and I wish I could give every one of you your own personal CD. For reasons of copyright that is, of course, impossible; and while for a long time I maintained links to them on various online sites, because of entropy virtually all have disappeared. So I am just going to list them. If you have read the novel and are curious what the songs I refer to sound like, this is where you’ll find them in the order they are invoked, which is not always precise chronological order.
If you haven’t read the novel but are curious about the terrain I cover, this will give you a pretty good idea.
If you like the songs, please buy them… from Google Play, Amazon, eMusic, iTunes or even on a CD. It will enrich both your life and the pocketbooks of some very worthy songwriters.
From the Twenties:
Keep on the Sunny Side — The Carter Family
Wandering Boy — The Carter Family
T for Texas — Jimmie Rodgers
From the Thirties:
Fox Chase — Deford Bailey
Precious Jewel — Roy Acuff
Travelin’ Down the Road — Uncle Dave Macon
Steel Guitar Rag — Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down — The Maddox Brothers and Rose
From the Forties:
Farther Along — The Maddox Brothers and Rose
You are My Sunshine — Elizabeth Mitchell
Tomorrow Never Comes — Ernest Tubb
Bubbles in My Beer — Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Move It On Over — Hank Williams
From the Fifties:
I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You) — Hank Williams
When I Stop Dreaming — The Louvin Brothers
Why Baby Why — George Jones
If You’ve Got the Money — Lefty Frizzell
If You’ve got the Money — Merle Haggard version
Folsom Prison Blues — Johnny Cash
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels — Kitty Wells
That’s All Right — Elvis Presley
From the Sixties:
Sweet Dream — Patsy Cline
Crazy — Willie Nelson
Stand by Your Man — Tammy Wynette
Together Again — Buck Owens
The Christian Life — The Byrds
Sing Me Back Home — Merle Haggard
From the Seventies:
Help Me Make it Through the Night — Kris Kristofferson
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way? — Waylon Jennings
I Will Always Love You — Dolly Parton
Love Hurts — Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
Will the Circle Be Unbroken — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band +
Rollin’ With the Flow — Charlie Rich
Sin City — Dwight Yoakam & KD Lang
From the Eighties:
He Stopped Loving Her Today — George Jones
Amarillo by Morning — George Strait
Let Me Tell You About Love — The Judds with Carl Perkins
I Won’t Need You Anymore — Randy Travis
From the Nineties:
Put Some Drive in Your Country — Travis Tritt
When My Morning Comes Around — Iris Dement
I’m Much too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) — Garth Brooks
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