Playlist: Toujours

Sometimes, a simple song, sung from the heart, is more powerful than a symphony. In my novel, one song traces a path through the story, leading the way into my guitar hero’s soul. Since I don’t play guitar, much less write songs, I relied on other artists to provide the inspiration, and imagine the song as an amalgamation of something I’ve heard. The name of the song is ‘Toujours’ and this is the playlist of the songs that inspired it.

To the artists who wrote and performed these: Thank you-your music transports and sustains me.

Bari Improv	Kaki King	August Rush (Music From The Motion Picture)
I Hold My Breath	Artisan	I Hold My Breath-EP
Saudade	Love And Rockets	Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
More Than Life	WhitLey	The Submarine
Without A Name	KillSwitch Engage	Alive Or Just Breathing
KapsBurger	Clogs	Lantern
Here Comes the Rain Again	Coury PalermO	Boxsideout V.1
The End of All Rivers	Bruce CockBurn	Speechless
TuOlumne	Eddie Vedder	Into the Wild (Music For the Motion Picture)
One	Cowboy Junkies	Early 21^st CenturY Blues
Bonus Track-Days Go By	Dirty Vegas	Dirty Vegas
AirTap!	Erik Mongrain	Fates
Blue Monday	Flunk	Blue Monday Remixes-Single
Siesta del Sol	In Credo	Cancun Lounge-Chillout in Paradise
All The Way Down	Glen Hansard	Once (Music from the Motion Picture
The Truth (Acoustic Mix)	HeadStrong	The Truth (Feat. TiFF Lacey)
Naked As we Came	Iron And Wine	Our Endless Numbered Days
Embryonic Journey	Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow
Road	Nick Drake	Pink Moon
Satisfied Mind	Jeff Buckley	Sketches for My SweetHeart the Drunk
About You	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Darklands
Not Too Late	Lindsey Buckingham	Under the Skin
Smell of Spring	N.O.H.A.	Dive in Your Life
Save The World (Acoustic Version)	P.T. Walkley	Nice Guy Johnny
Beyond this Moment	Patrick O’Hearn	So Flows the Current
Ice Age	Pete Yorn	Nightcrawler (Bonus Track)
Unknown Song	Pink Floyd	Zabriskie Point (SoundTrack for the Motion Picture)
That’s the Way	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III
Zeplike	Slightly Stoopid	Closer to the Sun
The Past and Pending	The Shins	Oh, Inverted World
The Journey	Socci & Pency	Just Visiting
Black Eye	Uncle Tupelo	March 16-20, 1992
Wild Horses	The Sundays	Blind
You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket	The White Stripes	Elephant
Desert Garden	VAST	Nude
Silver	Velvet Acid Christ	The Art of Breaking Apart
I’m ON Fire (Instrumental Version)	Stateless	Matilda (Extended Version)
Teardrop	José GonzáLez	In Our Nature
Ritual Dance	Kaki King	August Rush (Music From The Motion Picture)
Be Here Now	Ray LaMontagne	Till the Sun Turns Black
Hurt	Johnny Cash	American IV: Man Comes Around