For Mitch and Corey, Dale and PT and the rest, the music was the very atmosphere. It was everywhere, from first inspiration to the Wurlitzer jukebox in the café.
Joseph Brackett, “Simple Gifts”
Tim Buckley, “Buzzin’ Fly,” “Happy Time”
Andrew Calhoun, “Day In and Night Out”
Carter Family, “Keep on the Sunny Side,” “Wabash Cannonball”
Johnny Cash, “Home of the Blues”
Eric Clapton, “Lay Down Sally”
Elvis Costello, “Allison,” “Welcome to the Working Week”
Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Bad Moon Rising”
Neil Diamond, “Thank the Lord for the Night Time”
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine),” “Tangled Up in Blue”
Roberta Flack, “Killing Me Softly”
Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”
Merle Haggard, “Workin’ Man Blues”
Tim Hardin, “Reason to Believe,” “Southern Butterfly”
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”
Buddy Holly, “Rave On,” “That’ll Be the Day”
Robert Johnson, “Sweet Home Chicago”
Labelle, “Lady Marmalade (Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?)”
Gordon Lightfoot, “I’m Not Sayin’,” “Long River”
John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Monkees, “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You,” “I’m a Believer”
Ennio Morricone, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Van Morrison, “Brown-Eyed Girl,” “Domino,” “Moondance,”
Laura Nyro, “Really Got a Hold on Me,” “Stoned Soul Picnic”
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, “Born in Chicago”
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
Wilson Pickett, “In the Midnight Hour”
John Prine, “Angel From Montgomery”
Return to Forever, “What Game Shall We Play Today”
Smokey Robinson, “Going to a Go-Go,” “The Tracks of My Tears”
The Rolling Stones, “Beast of Burden,” Got Live if You Want It, “Honky Tonk Women,” “Shattered,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,”
Linda Ronstadt, “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”
“Silver Threads and Golden Needles”
Nina Simone, “Seems I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You”
Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
John Stewart, “Lost Her in the Sun,” “Road Away,” “Wolves in the Kitchen”
Donna Summer, Love to Love You Baby
The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love”
The Temptations, “Ball of Confusion”
Tom Waits, “The Heart of Saturday Night”
Weather Report, I Sing the Body Electric
“When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
Wild Cherry, “Play That Funky Music”