I’ve had a good number of requests to post the playlist for THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING, and here it is.  I had no idea there was so much music in this book, honestly, but music is always playing in my head (and Tessa’s!), so I suppose it is no big surprise.

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I’ve had a good number of requests to post the playlist for THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING, and here it is.  I had no idea there was so much music in this book, honestly, but music is always playing in my head (and Tessa’s!), so I suppose it is no big surprise.

I had a soundtrack that kept growing and growing and growing as I worked, and this is most of it. Not all songs showed up on the actual pages, of course.  And not all the folk songs have names I know.

Orphan Girl, Emmy Lou Harris

The Garden, Mirah

Dark on Fire, Turin Brakes

Ballad of an Outlaw Woman, Annie McCUe

Our House, Crosby Stills Nash and Young

Deja Vu, CSNY

Helplessly Hoping, CSN

It’s a Beautiful Day, It’s a Beautiful Day

Bombay Calling, It’s a Beautiful Day

Guinevere, CSN

Long as I Can See the Light, Creedence Clearwater Revival

Hanging on a Star, Nick Drak

Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol

Friend of the Devil, Grateful Dead

Truckin’, Grateful Dead

No Sleep Tonight, Faders

Superman, Three Doors Down

Rescue Me, Aretha Franklin

Mother of God, Patty Griffin

Turtle Blues, Janis Joplin

All You Rolling Minstrels, Fairport Convention

Tessa’s List of Happy Artists

Entire Motown List

Beatles

Sound of Music (also Natalie’s favorite)

Kirstly McColl’s Tropical Brainstorm

Cat Stevens, Teaser and the Firecat

I would love to have made you a playlist so you could download the whole thing at iTunes, but I haven’t a clue how to do it.

My sister posted her list, so I have to [...]]]> This is a note from Facebook, but it seemed like something fun to play with here.  I had SO much fun thinking of these top albums and have been remembering things about them all morning.  Post your favorites in the comments and let’s reminisce together

My sister posted her list, so I have to post mine. Think of 15, I mean 20, albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions.

With the above criteria in mind, and plenty of cheating, here’s my list in no certain order:

I stole a couple from her, right away. And it’s a weird list, I know.   It also makes me seem about a decade older than I am, since all I wanted to do was grow up and be a hippie.  <g>

1. Led Zepplin 4
2. Cosmo’s Factory by Credence Clearwater Revival (still write to this)
3. Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues (grandma’s house, 1970)
4. Beggar’s Banquet, Rolling Stones (which makes me remember a Castle Rock wedding, and a heady first kiss)
5. Tap Root Manuscript, Neil Diamond (“And you shall come to hear a song….”  I don’t care if you think ND is nerdy. This album is incredible.)
6. Are You Experienced, Hendrix
7. Street Corner Symphony, The Persuasions (Sunday breakfast through the 90s)
8. Beatles 1967-1970 (the blue album)
9. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
10. Luck of the Draw, Bonnie Raitt (good divorce music)
11. Sonny & Terry, Sonny Brownie and Terry McGee (The CD I can’t live without)
12. Cheap Thrills, Janis Joplin (see #10)
13. The Corrs, Unplugged
14. No Angel, Dido
15. Come Away With Me, Norah Jones (still in VERY heavy play)
16. Keb Mo, Keb Mo
17. Teaser and The Firecat, Cat Stevens
18. Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention
19. The CD said sister made for me when I had the blues one dark day in May
20. Tropical Brainstorm, Kirsty McColl

And then I remembered I forgot Uh-Huh, Mellencamp, and the CD my kids would mostly like name as my favorite, Paul Simon’s Greatest Hits, which I have played at least 59021 times over the course of their lives.

Let’s hear your favorites, too.  It’s so much fun to remember!