Their Music is My Life Playlist

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. - Hunter S. Thompson

The Whim of the Great Magnet

  1. Time is Tight - Booker T & the MG’s

  2. Woke Up This Morning - Paul Pena

  3. Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

  4. Work to Do - Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys of Alabama

  5. Turn off The News and Build a Garden - Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

  6. One Hundred Years from Now - Gram Parsons

The Rise and Fall of Ups and Downs

  1. My Story - Robert Finely

  2. Mr. Lucky - John Lee Hooker

  3. Promised Land - Johnnie Allan

  4. Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young

  5. Stranger in a Strange Land - Leon Russell

  6. Drift Away - Dobie Gray

  7. Long Live Rock - The Who

  8. I’ve Always been Crazy - Waylon Jennings

  9. I’m No Angel - Gregg Allman

  10. Drunken Angel - Lucinda Williams

  11. Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon

  12. Happy - The Rolling Stones

  13. The Real Me - The Who

  14. The Shape I’m in - The Band

Feeling My Way Around

  1. Struggle - Keith Richards

  2. My Shit’s Fucked Up - Warren Zevon

  3. Pressure Drop - Toots and the Maytals

  4. Everyday I have the Blues - B.B. King

  5. Working Man’s Blues - Merle Haggard

  6. Feel Like Going Home (demo version) - Charlie Rich

  7. It Don’t Come Easy - Bettye Lavette

  8. Splendid Isolation - Warren Zevon

  9. Hold On - John Lennon

The Upward Spiral

  1. Out of the Wilderness - The Como Mamas

  2. Them Changes - Buddy Miles

  3. Almost Cut My Hair - David Crosby

  4. Maggie’s Farm - Bob Dylan

  5. I’m One - The Who

  6. Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart

  7. Scare Easy - Mudcrutch

  8. Already Free - The Derek Trucks Band

  9. Prince of Peace - Leon Rusell

Journey to the Center of Myself

  1. Grown’ Pain - Peter Wolf

  2. Go to the Mirror - The Who

  3. These Days - Gregg Allman

  4. The Three of Me - William Bell

  5. When Will I Begin - Tedeschi Trucks Band

  6. Just Let Go - Sturgill Simpson

  7. Filled of Opportunity - Neil Young

  8. Wake Up Time - Tom Petty

  9. See Yourself - George Harrison

  10. The Man in Me - Lonnie Mack

  11. Sign on the Window - Bob Dylan

  12. Energy Follows Thought - Willie Nelson

  13. Time to Move On - Tom Petty

Boy Meets Girl

  1. Here Come’s My Girl - Tom Petty

  2. Out of Left Field - Gregg Allman

  3. Zero Willpower - Dan Penn

  4. I Will Take Care of You - William Bell

  5. I’m a Changed Man - Otis Redding

  6. I Thank You - Sam & Dave

  7. Happy - William Bell

  8. Part of Me - Tedeschi Trucks Band

  9. My Love Will Not Let You Down - Bruce Springsteen

  10. Wavelength - Van Morrison

  11. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

  12. The Nearness of You - The Rolling Stones

  13. A Song for You - Leon Russell

Love Inside Out

  1. Comes a Time - Neil Young

  2. I Must Be in a Good Place Now - Bobby Charles

  3. Joy of My Life - Jon Fogerty

  4. Lucky - Rodney Crowell

  5. Blue Skies - Willie Nelson

  6. Wild Horses - Leon Russell

  7. Love is a Rose - Linda Ronstadt

  8. Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers

  9. Come into My Life - Jimmy Cliff

  10. Baby Girl - Eli “Paperboy’ Reed

  11. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

Everything Matters

  1. Turtles All the Way Down - Sturgill Simpson

  2. God - John Lennon

  3. Time - Pink Floyd

  4. Reality - Black Merda

  5. Compassion - Lucinda Williams

  6. Choices - George Jones

  7. The Highwaymen - The Highwaymen

  8. Soulshine - The Allman Brothers

Forward Motion

  1. Hands on the Wheel - Willie Nelson

  2. Hey Tomorrow - Jim Croce

  3. I Think I - David Crosby

  4. Getting In Tune - The Who

  5. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters

  6. Man in Motion - Warren Haynes

The Big Pic

  1. For Real - Willie, Lukas & Micah Nelson, Jakob Dylan, Dhani Harrison, Amos Lee

  2. The Long Haul - American Aquarium

  3. A Little Bit of Everything - Dawes

  4. The Stuff That Works - Guy Clark

The Shiny Diamond

  1. When I Paint My Masterpiece - The Band

  2. Old Chunk of Coal - Johhny Cash

Prelude

  1. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More - The Allman Brothers

  2. Right Now - Graham Nash

  3. How Lucky - John Prine

  4. Rockin’ in the Free World - Neil Young

Coda

  1. That Feel - Tom Waits

Where to find the playlist

Apple Music - Their Music is My Life

Spotify - Their Music is My Life

Note: The full playlist is unavailable on Spotify due to Neil Young pulling his content. I use Spotify links for each post besides Neil songs where I use Apple Music. More power to you, Uncle Neil.