An admittedly twangy playlist, perhaps not for the backyard barbecue party, but maybe for some quieter time later on, perhaps concerning what David James Duncan calls the “constantly backfiring experiment in self-government known as ‘the United States,'” presented without further comment:
Josh Ritter, “Henrietta, Indiana“
Josh Ritter, “All Some Kind of Dream“
James McMurtry, “State of the Union“
James McMurtry, “We Can’t Make it Here“
James McMurtry, “No More Buffalo“
Merle Haggard, “Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?“
John Prine, “Some Humans Ain’t Human“
Kacey Musgraves, “Merry Go Round“
Jason Isbell, “Cumberland Gap“
Jason Isbell, “White Man’s World“
Gary Clark Jr., “This Land“
Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, and Lyle Lovett, “Blowin’ Down the Road” and “This Land is Your Land”
Colin Steele 