Straight to Hell - The Clash
a mournful look at the displacement of immigrants and the effects of war. MIA samples this in Paper Planes
Alabama - John Coltrane
'After the murder of 4 girls in the Ku Klux Klans bombing of the Sixteenth Street baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. Coltrane apparently patterned his saxophone playing on Martin Luther King's funeral speech.'
A masterpiece.
Brother Can You Spare A Dime - Bing Crosby
'They used to tell me I was building a Dream' - the bewilderment of someone grappling with shattered pride.
The Times They are a changing - Bob Dylan
'It's a feeling'
John Walker's Blues - Steve Earle
Very powerful and significant
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Emma Smith-Stevens’s Book Notes music playlist for her story collection
Greyhounds
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"...fiction is either false or true. It depends on the depth of imagination
and empathy; style, rhythm, silence; honesty and depth of feeling and
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