Mind Your Own Business #OpenBook Blog Hop

Dec 16 2024

If your book had a soundtrack, what would be on it?

The old-term was country-western.

Now they call it country, but the music has changed.

Before I started editing the first chapter of The Rimer Files, I wanted to get in the mood. Since the story was set in the mid 1980s. I knew Annie McGregor, my protagonist, was not a rock-n-roll chick. With the opening scene in The Outlaw, a country-western bar, it made sense to continue that background music throughout the book.

George Strait, Hank Williams, Jr., and Willie Nelson all hold places on the playlist, along with Merle Haggard and Alabama. Not musicians I listen to on a regular basis, but perfect to inspire my writing. I found a playlist on YouTube of a 1985 top ten country music and set it to play in the background as I wrote. Of course, it included the supergroup “The Highwaymen.” With members Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash. (I think I still have one of the LPs in my collection. Willie is the only one still with us.)

There were women singers who made the charts but not my list. Reba McIntyre, The Judds, Dolly Parton. As I mention in my blurb, it was a man’s world—even in the world of country music.

As far as the title of this blog? It was a song originally written in 1949 and sung by Hank Williams. In 1986, Hank Jr. took it back to No. 1. How much more country can you get than that? (Reba sang it with him, but that’s just a side note in the articles I read. It’s a man’s world.)

Check out the soundtracks of other authors by following the links below.  And, as always, until next time, please stay safe.

Dec 16 2024

If your book had a soundtrack, what would be on it?

 

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