Episode 2: Yourtown, U.S.A.
Written by Finn Turner on November 6, 2016
Bar Street in Troy, Montana, 1970s (from the Noirsville blog).
Episode 2 of The Road to Nowhere follows us down the dead-end streets of small town America. There are ghostly bars, gleaming, formica-covered diners, glittering high school proms, and the interminable, hypnotic roads that lead to somewhere, anywhere else . . . and back home. “Yourtown U.S.A.” focuses on outsider country, dreamy doo wop, rock, and pop from the ’50s through the ’80s (plus lots of lip smacking, a.k.a. “body music”, courtesy of DJ Finn).
Paris, Texas, 1984. From Springsteen’s “Open All Night”: Your eyes get itchy in the wee wee hours/Sun’s just a red ball rising over them refinery towers.
Playlist:
Track
Artist
Album
Fort Worth
Lee Hazlewood
Trouble Is a Lonesome Town (Reissue)
Petoskey Town
Harry Charles
7"
Ghost Town
Eddie Miller and His Band
7"
Lonely Sidewalks
Donald Adkins
7"
Bob's Big Boy
David Lynch
Catching the Big Fish: Mediation, Consciousness, and Creativity
I Almost Lost My Mind
Duane Eddy
Have "Twangy" Guitar, Will Travel
Bad Cat
Roy Orbison
The Soul of Rock and Roll
Open All Night
Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska
I Gotta Get a Message to You
Morning-Noon and Night
7"
Bring Me Happiness
Rosie and Ron
7"
Radio Spot #4: Good Taste Tip - Dating Courtesy
The Shangri-Las
Myrmidons of Melodrama
Freshman Girl, Senior Boy
Loy Clingman
The Arizona Cowboy
He Knows I Love Him Too Much
The Paris Sisters
Sing For All Their Boys
Rockin' Back Inside My Heart
Julee Cruise
Floating Into the Night
She Says
Frank Sinatra
Watertown
Dusty Roads
Eve
Lee Hazlewood Industries: There's a Dream I've Been Saving, 1966-1971
Albuquerque
Neil Young
Tonight's the Night
Helpless
Buffy Sainte-Marie
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
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