Since I was a five-year-old kid lost in the thoughts in his head, there’s been a song playing in the back of my mind. I wish I could say music helps me make sense of life, but despite the forty-two issues of Spin magazine stacked in my closet and a dresser-full of cassette tapes pirated from the library, the best I can say is music helps me get through life.
– Sam "Bags" Bagliarello, from A Reason to Run
My life has played to a soundtrack of the music around me since my earliest memories. I can picture Mom cleaning the house when I was a kid in the 1970s. Carly Simon played on the console record player the size of a coffin in our wood-panelled basement in LaGrange Park. And I shivered through many cold winter mornings at our tiny kitchen table waiting for the car to warm up with a sad song by The Carpenters piping through the radio on top of the fridge.
I don’t remember the days or the words of my childhood, but I remember the images. And those images had a song playing in the background.
As I mined my own teenage memories and emotions while writing A Reason to Run, I put together some of the songs that influenced my life at that time.
Likewise, the playlist for Turtle Girly Honey Dirt Country Up North includes music that helped bring my characters, and the story's time period, to life. I may have taken some liberties with song release dates, but the vibes remain true to the story.
Here are the playlists from A Reason to Run and Turtle Girly Honey Dirt Country Up North. I hope you enjoy the tunes and let me know your thoughts.
– Mike
– Sam "Bags" Bagliarello, from A Reason to Run
My life has played to a soundtrack of the music around me since my earliest memories. I can picture Mom cleaning the house when I was a kid in the 1970s. Carly Simon played on the console record player the size of a coffin in our wood-panelled basement in LaGrange Park. And I shivered through many cold winter mornings at our tiny kitchen table waiting for the car to warm up with a sad song by The Carpenters piping through the radio on top of the fridge.
I don’t remember the days or the words of my childhood, but I remember the images. And those images had a song playing in the background.
As I mined my own teenage memories and emotions while writing A Reason to Run, I put together some of the songs that influenced my life at that time.
Likewise, the playlist for Turtle Girly Honey Dirt Country Up North includes music that helped bring my characters, and the story's time period, to life. I may have taken some liberties with song release dates, but the vibes remain true to the story.
Here are the playlists from A Reason to Run and Turtle Girly Honey Dirt Country Up North. I hope you enjoy the tunes and let me know your thoughts.
– Mike
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