Happy Monday, folks! Seems like winter wanted to give us one last snow day this season, so I’m sitting at home enjoying an extra day off. Here’s a playlist for you to while away those hours.

1. Jason Isbell, “Songs That She Sang In The Shower”: Southeastern is filled with great story songs, and this is one of the best on there. I always wonder how autobiographical songs are, and can’t help but feel this one comes from personal experience.
2. Boygenius, “Not Strong Enough”: These three write and perform some of the best songs I’ve heard in the past several years. I’m so glad they decided to form a supergroup and bless us with songs as good as this one.
3. Brandi Carlisle, “Turpentine”: Brandi Carlisle remains one of the unsung treasures of country-tinged Americana. If she’d only ever written just this song, that’d still be the truth. But she’s done several albums’ worth of songs that are all just as good. It’s kinda wild.
4. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “It’ll All Work Out”: I heard a remix of this song the other day on the Tom Petty Radio SXM station that emphasized the acoustic guitar over other instruments. I kinda low-key love it the way I love the album version I’ve heard dozens of times.
5. Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”: Did you know you can make a five minute rock song playing the same four chords over and over in the same patter the whole time? ‘Cause Iggy Pop does.
6. Led Zeppelin, “Hey Hey What Can I Do”: It’s the Led Zeppelin song that I can play on the guitar! Hurray!
7. David Gray, “First Chance”: I feel like every song on the Draw the Line album is just fantastic.
8. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, “Born Secular”: One of the best songs on one of the best albums ever.
9. Rage Against The Machine, “Killing In The Name”: “Some of those who work forces/are the same that burn crosses.” Just as relevant and accurate today as it was the day this song released over thirty years ago.
10. The Rolling Stones, “Mixed Emotions”: Man, no one escaped the ’80s unscathed.