A really great line from a movie I can’t remember says “The main thing that’s wrong with life is there’s no background music.” The following ever-growing list of songs (in very little particular order except for #1, #2, and #3) and their artists are what would be on the soundtrack if some fool ever made a movie about my life.

  1. “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  2. “Jesus and Mama” by Confederate Railroad
  3. “Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)” by Chris Tomlin
  4. “All I Can I Do Is Write About It” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  5. “Boondocks” by Little Big Town
  6. “Every Mother’s Son” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  7. “Take It to the Limit” by The Eagles
  8. “(What this World Needs is) A Few More Rednecks” by Charlie Daniels
  9. “Roll, Gypsy, Roll” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  10. “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock
  11. “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  12. “She Talks to Angels” by The Black Crowes
  13. “Red, White, and Blue” by Van Zant (which is basically what’s left of Lynyrd Skynyrd)
  14. “Midnight Rider” by The Allman Brothers Band
  15. “The Needle and the Spoon” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  16. “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard
  17. “Help Somebody” by Van Zant (See #12)
  18. “Soulshine” by Gov’t Mule
  19. “Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  20. “Long Haired Country Boy” by Charlie Daniels
  21. “Tuesday’s Gone” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  22. “He Went To Paris” by Jimmy Buffett
  23. “Jack Daniels If You Please” by David Allen Coe
  24. “Seeing Things” by The Black Crowes
  25. “Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)” by Pam Tillis
  26. “Carry on my Wayward Son” by Kansas
  27. “That’s Life” by Frank Sinatra
  28. “Whipping Post” by The Allman Brothers Band
  29. “The Tide is High” by Blondie
  30. “Five Feet High and Rising” by Johnny Cash
  31. “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd

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  1. You forgot Desperado and they call me the breeze!! Those I remember very well from our teen and early 20′s years! ~ ~ Tracie :) As well as walk away by Chicago I think.

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