All the Pretty Horses

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All the Pretty Horses Playlist

by Cormac McCarthy

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 26, 2026

This sequence follows John Grady and Rawlins from the wide, beckoning spaces of Texas into Mexico, where beauty, horsemanship, desire, and danger become inseparable. Spare guitar, frontier folk, and open-air instrumentals give way to songs of love, loyalty, and the cost of trying to live by an older code.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Paris, Texas

Ry Cooder · Music by Ry Cooder

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2

No. 5, Hoe-Down

Aaron Copland · Copland: Billy the Kid, Rodeo, El Salón México & An Outdoor Overture

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3

On The Trail

Ferde Grofé · Grand Canyon Suite

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4

Sunflower River Blues

John Fahey · Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes

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5

Rebel Rouser

Duane Eddy · Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel

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6

Vaseline Machine Gun

Leo Kottke · Standing In My Shoes

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7

Highway Anxiety

William Tyler · Modern Country

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8

A Calf Born In Winter

Khruangbin · A Calf Born in Winter

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9

Sleepwalk

Santo & Johnny · Santo & Johnny

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10

Angie (2015 Remaster)

Bert Jansch · Bert Jansch

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11

El Paso

Marty Robbins · Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

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12

If I Needed You

Townes Van Zandt · The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

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13

Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain

Willie Nelson · Red Headed Stranger

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14

Drunken Angel

Lucinda Williams · Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

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15

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris · Hickory Wind

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16

Guitar Town

Steve Earle · Guitar Town

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17

Return of the Grievous Angel - 2006 Remaster

Gram Parsons · Grievous Angel

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18

Look at Miss Ohio

Gillian Welch · Soul Journey

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19

The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

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20

Old Man

Neil Young · Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition)

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