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Episode 027 · · 39 tracks

Our Town

39 tracks about the places we come from, pass through, and can't quite leave behind. From Downtown to Small Town to Ghost Town -- every song has a town in the title. Opens with a Pittsburgh Grateful Dead classic and closes with David + David.

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Playlist

  1. B-52's Downtown
  2. Shawn Mullins Tinseltown
  3. Grateful Dead Shakedown Street (live, Pittsburgh '89)
  4. Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
  5. The Jam Town Called Malice
  6. Neil Young Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
  7. The Go-Betweens Streets of Your Town
  8. The Go-Go's This Town
  9. Blue Rodeo This Town
  10. Kacey Musgraves This Town
  11. Johnny Cash This Town
  12. The Clash Last Gang in Town
  13. Joe Jackson Chinatown
  14. Luna Chinatown
  15. Bleachers Chinatown
  16. John Mellencamp Small Town
  17. Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy
  18. Ricky Nelson Lonesome Town
  19. Steve Earle Guitar Town
  20. The Pogues Dirty Old Town
  21. Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back in Town
  22. The Specials Ghost Town
  23. Lucero On My Way Downtown
  24. Tom Waits Downtown
  25. Everything But the Girl Downtown Train
  26. Gene Pitney Town Without Pity
  27. Iris DeMent Our Town
  28. Lou Reed, John Cale Smalltown
  29. Wednesday Townies
  30. Indigo Girls Get Out the Map
  31. Pretenders Talk of the Town
  32. The Thrills One Horse Town
  33. The Dream Academy Life in a Northern Town
  34. Fruition Northern Town
  35. Buck Owens San Francisco Town
  36. Bob Dylan Oxford Town
  37. Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson Uptown Funk
  38. Warren Zevon Empty Hearted Town
  39. David & David Welcome to the Boomtown

Appendix

Books

  • Cosmic Thing (33 1/3 series) – Peter Creighton
  • Lou Reed: King of New York – Will Hermes

🍺 Imbibements

  • Scam Likely DIPA – Cerebral (CO)
  • Juicy Mid-Tones – Corn Coast (NE)
  • Alien Jams – Human People (WA)
  • Black Candle Imp. Milk Stout – Branch and Bone Artisanal Ales (OH)