wild west in december trip playlist:

the list, at least musically, is a combination of B-sides/older stuff as well as some of my all-time favorites. Because of the ample amount of driving time involved, the playlist was organized around whole albums as opposed to individual songs.

Music:

The Album Leaf- Green Tour EP, In a Safe Place, Into the Blue Again

Amos Lee- Amos Lee, Supply and Demand

Anathallo- Hymns

Arcade Fire- The Suburbs

Arvo Part- Spiegel im Spiegel

Bad Books- Bad Books

The Beatles- Let It Be

Ben Harper- Burn to Shine

Ben Kweller- On My Way

The Black Keys- Attack and Release

Benjamin Gibbard- Home: Volume V

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- B.R.M.C

Bob Dylan- Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Live: The Royal Albert Hall Concert, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Dylan, Dylan and the Dead, Highway 61 Revisited

Bright Eyes- Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, Noise Floor (Rarities)

Bruce Springsteen- Greatest Hits

Cat Power- The Greatest

Clem Snide- The Ghost of Fashion

Conor Oberst- Conor Oberst

Copeland- Beneath Medicine Tree

The Cure- Greatest Hits

Denison Witmer- Are You a Dreamer?

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca, Rise Above

Dr. Dog- Shame, Shame

Eisley- Marvelous Things

Elliot Smith- Either/Or, XO, Roman Candle

Erik Satie- Works Vol. 1

Ever We Fall- We Are But Human

A Fine Frenzy- One Cell in the Sea

The Format- Interventions and Lullabies

Good Old War- Good Old War, Only Way to be Alone

Guster- Keep it Together

Headphones- Headphones

The Honorary Title- Anything Else but the Truth

The Innocence Mission- Christ is my Hope

Iron and Wine- Around the Well

Jars of Clay- The Long Fall Back to Earth

John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

Johnny Cash- American IV

Jon Foreman- Fall, Winter

Joni Mitchell- Blue

Kevin Devine- Brother's Blood

Lovedrug- Pretend You're Alive

Manchester Orchestra- I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child

Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica, This Is a Long Drive...

The Mountain Goats- Tallahassee

The National- Alligator

Nick Drake- Pink Moon

Nirvana- Nevermind

Owen- At Home with Owen

Page France- Hello, Dear Wind

Paul Simon- The Essential Paul Simon

Pearl Jam- Vs.

Pedro the Lion- Control

Phosphorescent- A Hundred Times or More, To Willie

Relient K- The Creepy EP

Right Away, Great Captain!- The Bitter End, The Eventually Home

Sigur Ros- Von

Sonic Youth- Dirty

Sufjan Stevens- The Age of Adz, Enjoy Your Rabbit, Songs for Christmas

The Tallest Man on Earth- The Wild Hunt

This Day and Age- The Bell and the Hammer

Thom Yorke- The Eraser

U2- War

Watashi Wa- Eager Seas

Weezer- Hurley

Wilco- Mermaid Avenue

Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

AA Bondy- American Hearts

This Frontier Needs Heroes- This Frontier Needs Heroes

Books:

Travels With Charley in Search of America- John Steinbeck

The Waste Land and Other Poems- T.S. Eliot

Gilead- Marilynne Robinson

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books- Charles Dickens

40 Short Stories- A Portable Anthology (Chekhov, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, O'Connor, etc.)

Podcasts/Lectures:

The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution- John Merriman, European Civilization, Open Yale Courses

Philosophers and Kings: Plato, Republic- Steven B. Smith, Introduction to Political Philosophy, Open Yale Courses

The Infant Cry of God- John Rogers, Milton, Open Yale Courses

that took a long time to write.