Sitting in for Jarvis Cocker on BBC Radio 6 yesterday, Alison Mosshart chose Outlaws and Highways as the inspiration for her track list. An excellent show. Available here for the next week. The tracks are listed below.
Kate Mossman of The Observer writes of Mosshart;
"It's hard to imagine Mosshart blazing up Dalston's Balls Pond Road, though. "How many speed bumps do we need, people?" she says. "The most boring place to be in a car – in the world – is this city. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to explode."
"… travelling back and forth to Nashville, where she's bought a "muscle car" and finally has access to the open road she craves. She's writing new Kills songs at the wheel – "literally, with a pen and a paper. Believe me, it's so dangerous..."
Bo Diddley Cops and Robbers
John Lee Hooker I'm Bad Like Jesse James (Live)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis What Must Be Done
Woody Guthrie Billy The Kid
Mississippi John Hurt Stack O' Lee Blues
The Soggy Bottom Boys I am a Man Of Constant Sorrow
Howlin' Wolf I Aint Superstitious
The J.B. Pickers Freedom of Expression
Chuck Berry You Can't Catch Me
Unkown Mortal Orchestra Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark)
The Velvet Underground Run Run Run
The Modern Lovers Roadrunner
Jeff Buckley Lost Highway
Laura Marling Blues Run The Game
Waylon Jennings I've Always Been Crazy
Canned Heat On The Road Again
Fiji Song For Charles Manson
Shocking Blue Harley Davidson
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Queens of the Stone Age Outlaw Blues
R. L. Burnside Let My Baby Ride
Creedence Clearwater Revival Up Around The Bend
Dean Martin My Rifle, My Pony And Me