Book Playlist

The Bog Wife Playlist

by Kay Chronister

20 tracks

balanced

Nov 6, 2026

This playlist moves between close, weathered textures and wider, unsettled soundscapes: music for a decaying family home, the living bog beyond it, and the pressure of inherited ties. Its Appalachian-rooted folk songs sit alongside spare classical and atmospheric instrumentals, tracing a shift from wary intimacy toward something stranger and more elemental.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Prelude for Time Feelers

Eluvium · Pianoworks

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2

Melancholia I

William Basinski · Melancholia

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3

An Intention

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · The Kid

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4

Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim

Harold Budd · The Pavilion Of Dreams

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5

Everything Is Free

Gillian Welch · Time (The Revelator)

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6

Black Soul Choir

16 Horsepower · Sackcloth -N- Ashes

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7

Deeper Well

Emmylou Harris · Wrecking Ball

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8

Something on Your Mind

Karen Dalton · In My Own Time

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9

The Wild Rover

Lankum · The Livelong Day

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10

Look at Miss Ohio

Gillian Welch · Soul Journey

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11

In the Pines

Lead Belly · Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1

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12

O Death

Ralph Stanley · O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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13

The Wind

PJ Harvey · Is This Desire?

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14

A House In Nebraska

Ethel Cain · Preacher’s Daughter

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15

Overture (For Other Halfs)

Brian McBride · When the Detail Lost Its Freedom

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16

Respite

Goldmund · The Time It Takes

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17

Horizon: I. Visible Horizon

John Luther Adams · John Luther Adams: Horizon

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18

Nautilus

Anna Meredith · Varmints

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19

Nuages gris, S. 199

Franz Liszt · Metanoia

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20

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto

Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14

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