I was playing records for Mrs. T in our hotel room late last night. She claimed to be more than usually pleased by my eclectic playlist, so I thought I’d share it with you as well:
• Johnny Hodges, “Castle Rock”
• Lucinda Williams, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”
• Mabel Mercer, “The Best Is Yet to Come”
• Pete Steele, “Coal Creek March”
• Brahms Waltzes, Op. 39 (played by Nadia Boulanger and Dinu Lipatti)
• Dave Dudley, “Six Days on the Road”
• The Dominoes, “Sixty Minute Man”
• Dave Frishberg, “Slappin’ the Cakes on Me”
• The Sons of the Pioneers, “Cool Water”
• Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, “Cherry Red”
• James P. Johnson, “Caprice Rag”
• Stan Getz and Chick Corea, “Captain Marvel”
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “Up Above My Head”
• Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo: Si come nella penna (performed by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten)
• Charles Trenet, “La Mer”
• Bill Stepp, “Bonaparte’s Retreat”
• John Scofield with Medeski, Martin & Wood, “Boozer”
• Chopin Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 42 (played by Josef Hofmann)
• The Louvin Brothers, “Cash on the Barrelhead”
• Chabrier Villanelle des petits canards (performed by Pierre Bernac and Francis Poulenc)
• Frank Sinatra and the Hollywood String Quartet, “Close to You”
• Robert Johnson, “Come On in My Kitchen”
