Side A
Artist	Song
Townes van Zandt	A Joke ( spoken word)
Lou Reed	The Blue Mask
Johnny Cash	Rock'n'Roll Ruby
Hank Williams, Sr.	Mind Your Own Business
Wayne Hancock	A-Town Blues
Lucinda Williams	I Lost It
Husker Du	Turn It Around
REM	The Finest Worksong
Warren Zevon	Lawyers Guns and Money
Tom Petty	Rebels
Ryan Adams	Touch Feel and Lose
Tom Waits	Bride of Raindog
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Garland Jefferies	Wild in the Streets
Rolling Stones	Happy
Patti Smith Group	My Generation
Neil Young	Over and Over
Steve Earle	Tom Ames's Prayer
Bob Dylan	We Better Talk this Over
Randy Newman	Rednecks
Townes van Zandt	Talkin KKK Blues
Anna Fermin'sTrigger Gospel	Is This Goodbye
willie Nelson w/ Susan Tedeschi	Crazy
Van Morrison	Here Comes the Night

Comment:

The title may be a little precious, I dunno... many times in my life, people have asked me my favorite writers and I have included guys like Lou Reed and Dylan and Tom Waits. I really don't feel as though that's a precious or glib thing to do. What matters is the quality and clarity and strength of writing, not its style or form. Not to me...

So I wanted to make a tape of subjectively great songwriters. my favorites; guys, and gals, I respect. People who I see as absolute, pure practitioners of their craft.

This volume I wanted a focus on guys who came from Punk, or influenced it, or who were punk without knowing it or having that name. sub themes that jumped out right away: covers and unearthing lost 70s classics. The dylan stuff, most of the Morrison; the Newman and Zevon and Patti Smith. The Bowie. The Lou Reed is right at the cusp of the 80s. Both were unintentional but happened and worked.

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