Playlist #233

Happy Indigenous People’s Day, folks! We don’t talk about that other guy.

  1. Redbone, “Wovoka”: As the best Native American rock band of the 1970s, Redbone put a fascinating wrinkle on rock and roll. Nice native rhythms.
  2. Counting Crows, “1492”: Why does this song spend a whole verse talking about Christopher Columbus? What does this have to do with literally anything else in this song?
  3. The Narcissist Cookbook, “The Simplest Words”: Sometimes, your brain goes all dribbly, and this guy gets it.
  4. Phoebe Bridgers, “It’ll All Work Out”: A Tom Petty cover? In this economy? It’s slowed way down but beautiful.
  5. Alan Jackson, “Chattahoochee”: A song that understands consent better than the President of the United States.
  6. Rhett Miller, “A Little Song”: A beautiful little song off his new album, one made apparently while he was waiting to get surgery done on his vocal chords (he had a polyp and a cyst on them!) and was in danger of never being able to sing again if things went wrong. They went right, though, which is good for all of us.
  7. Rilo Kiley, “Does He Love You?”: Still one of the bitterest love songs I’ve ever heard.
  8. Seven Mary Three, “Water’s Edge”: Look, ma, we’ve got Richard Marx in the ’90s!
  9. Passenger, “Let Her Go”: What if Cat Stevens got his start in the 2010s?
  10. Matt Berninger, “Little By Little”: Still a damn good song that I just keep going back to again and again.