WILT_2024-02

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 7 Jan 2024 to 13 Jan 2024.

1. Single Handed Sailor – Dire Straits
2. All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan
3. Just Like That – Bonnie Raitt
4. Sandusky – Uncle Tupelo
5. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down – Uncle Tupelo
6. Black Eye – Uncle Tupelo
7. Moonshiner – Uncle Tupelo
8. Tecumseh Valley – Townes Van Zandt
9. Made Up Mind – Bonnie Raitt
10. Boulder to Burmingham – Emmylou Harris
11. Jackson – Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
12. Where I Come From – Patty Griffin

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-02

Notes

I didn’t really know what to listen to at the start of the week but I decided that I wanted to listen to more of Dire Strait’s discography and so I started there. However, I soon saw that there was a new Ryan Adams album and I listened to it for awhile, and then Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower came on and I realised that I hadn’t listened to folk and country music for a rather long time, and thus I sought out some playlists for the genre. 

I landed on one, and it was a bit of re-discovery of many iconoclasts of the genre, where I’d heard their names being thrown into the hat but I’d actually never spent time listening to them. This was a good a time as any, and I’m glad that I can appreciate the artistry of singers, songwriters, and musicians like Bonnie Raitt, Uncle Tupelo, and Emmylou Harris.

One thing that has always drawn me to folk and country music was the expansiveness and desolation found in the imagery of their lyrics. It’s not in all the songs but the ones that make an impression always sound melancholic and bittersweet, feelings that have been fermented, the kind that you get drunk on.