Certainly, there is no known order to the playlist a generic iPod cycles up, am I right?
Step Inside This House (Lyle Lovett) Step Inside this House
Rebel Within (Hank III) Rebel Within
Sweetheart of the Rodeo (The Byrds) You Ain’t Going Nowhere
Ready for Confetti (Robert Earl Keen) Soul of Man
Live at the Deaf Club (Dead Kennedy’s) Back in the USSR
Long Gone Daddy (Hank III) The Sun Comes Up
Brotherhood disc 1 (The Chemical Brothers) The Sun Comes Up
There are portions of Lyle Lovett’s Step Inside This House that I can never escape, more than a “desert island CD,” there are portions that are soundtracks to my own life. The nod is towards the “cosmic cowboy” era, like the aforementioned Byrds, et al, where the roots of Americana probably first emerged, coalesced, and found form. Sure, I’ll go with that.
It’s more than a random playlist, though, as this has evidence of the historical (Hank III & Byrds), West Coast Punk (DK’s), and the entire disco era capsulated with a dance mix (Chemical Bros.)
It’s much more than a playlist. This is what works to get the narrative started. A kick start, a running jump, a running start to get the material in order and flowing.
Random Playlist?
Another random playlist, with yet another Lyle Lovett song? Lyrics are something about “The sun comes up in a coffee cup…” (here.)
“If music is the food of love, play on….”
I never liked Orsino, anyway.
