Soundtrack to What Happened in Granite Creek

I’m part Luddite: I don’t have an iPod or an MP3 player or even a stereo. I listen to stuff online or CDs on my computer. Weird, I know, considering I spent nearly a decade in broadcast radio.

That said, music affects me like it does everyone else…it transports, and it inspires. Here are the songs that I listened to over and over during the drafting stages of the novel — or, more accurately, here are links to the YouTube videos I watched obsessively. These became the soundtrack to What Happened in Granite Creek — in my mind, at least.

Far Away Nickelback
Already Gone Kelly Clarkson
Just Breathe Pearl Jam (played over and over in March 2010 when I was deep in the draft)
Possum Kingdom Toadies
Gives You Hell The All-American Rejects
Under Pressure Queen and David Bowie
Say John Mayer (not the official video — for some reason, I liked this angsty version)
Long Long Time Linda Ronstadt
The Promise Tracy Chapman (one of my favorite songs of all time…and one of the saddest, too)
Crazy Heart Ryan Bingham (the trailer for the movie of the same name)
Hands Clean Alanis Morissette