Playlist
I often write to music, and OAK & THORNS was no exception. Here’s the playlist I used for this book. I consider two songs to be ‘theme songs’ for Oak & Thorns: King in the Tree by Shriekback, and Hymn to Herne, by S.J. Tucker.
Alice in Chains: Man in the Box; Sunshine
AWOLNATION: Sail
Band of Skulls: I Know What I Am
The Black Angels: The Return; Evil Things Don’t Play with Guns; Holland; Love Me Forever; Always Maybe; Black Isn’t Black; Young Men Dead; The First Vietnamese War; Manipulation; The Sniper
Black Mountain: Queens Will Play
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Feel It Now
Boom! Bap! Pow!: Suit
Broken Bells: The Ghost Inside
Camouflage Nights: (It Could Be) Love
Cobra Verde: Play with Fire
Colin Foulke: Emergence, Caravella
Corvus Corax: Filii Neidhardi; Ballade de Mercy
Crazy Town: Butterfly
Damh the Bard: Obsession; Cloak of Feathers; The Wicker Man; Spirit of Albion
David & Steve Gordon: Shaman’s Drum Dance
Death Cab For Cutie: I Will Possess Your Heart
Donovan: Sunshine Superman; Season of the Witch
Eastern Sun: Beautiful Being (Original Edit)
Everlast: Black Jesus; I Can’t Move; What It’s Like
Fatboy Slim: Praise You
FC Kahuna: Hayling
The Feeling: Sewn
Fluke: Absurd
Foster The People: Pumped Up Kicks
Garbage: Queer; #1 Crush; Push It; I Think I’m Paranoid
Gary Numan: Ghost Nation; My Name Is Ruin; Broken; I Am Dust; Here in the Black; Love Hurt Bleed; Petals; Cars (Remix)
Gorillaz: Kids with Guns; Hongkongaton; Rockit; Clint Eastwood; Dare
The Gospel Whiskey Runners: Muddy Waters
Gypsy Soul: Who
In Strict Confidence: Forbidden Fruit; Silver Bullets; Snow White; Tiefer
Julian Cope: Charlotte Anne
Justin Timberlake: SexyBack
The Kills: Future Starts Slow; Nail in My Coffin; DNA; You Don’t Own the Road; Sour Cherry; No Wow; Dead Road 7
Korn: Freak on a Leash
Lorde: Yellow Flicker Beat; Royals
Low with Tom and Andy: Half Light
Marilyn Manson: Personal Jesus; Tainted Love
Mark Lanegan: The Gravedigger’s Song; Riot in My House; Phantasmagoria Blues; Wedding Dress; Methamphetamine Blues
Matt Corby: Breathe
MIA: Bad Girls
Motherdrum: Big Stomp
Nirvana: You Know You’re Right; Come as You Are; Lake of Fire; Lithium; Heart Shaped Box
Orgy: Social Enemies; Blue Monday
A Pale Horse Named Death: meet the wolf
Pearl Jam: Even Flow; Jeremy
People in Planes: Vampire
Puddle of Mudd: Famous; Psycho
Rob Zombie: Living Dead Girl; Never Gonna Stop
Roisin Murphy: Ramalama (Bang Bang)
S. J. Tucker: Hymn to Herne
Scorpions: The Zoo
Screaming Trees: Where the Twain Shall Meet; Dime Western
Shriekback: The Shining Path; Underwaterboys; This Big Hush; Now These Days Are Gone; The King in the Tree
Tamaryn: While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming; Violet’s in a Pool
Toadies: Possum Kingdom
Tom Petty: Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Wendy Rule: Let the Wind Blow
Wild Cherry: Play that Funky Music
Zero 7: In the Waiting Line