The Long and Faraway Gone

Book Playlist

The Long and Faraway Gone Playlist

by Louis Berney

20 tracks

balanced

Nov 10, 2026

The instrumental half moves between the uneasy quiet of recollection and the pressure of an investigation, with spacious textures that suggest Oklahoma’s open landscape and the isolation of surviving violence. The vocal half brings in songs about disappearance, memory, loss, and resilience, giving the playlist an emotional arc from unresolved questions toward hard-won understanding.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Only The Winds - Remastered 2023

Ólafur Arnalds · For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition)

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2

The Birth and Death of the Day

Explosions In The Sky · All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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3

Angel Echoes

Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)

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4

Djed

Tortoise · Millions Now Living Will Never Die

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5

The Homeless Wanderer

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru · Spielt Eigen Kompositionen

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6

The River

Bruce Springsteen · The River

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7

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman

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8

Hurt

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

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9

Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

Fairport Convention · Unhalfbricking

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10

Long Black Veil - Remastered 2000

The Band · Music From Big Pink (Remastered)

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11

The Night We Met

Lord Huron · Strange Trails

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12

I Remember Everything

John Prine · I Remember Everything

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13

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen · The Ghost Of Tom Joad

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14

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot · Summertime Dream

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15

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen · You Want It Darker

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16

Paris, Texas

Ry Cooder · Music by Ry Cooder

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17

A Calf Born In Winter

Khruangbin · A Calf Born in Winter

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18

Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis · Kind of Blue

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19

Last Train Home

Pat Metheny · One Quiet Night

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20

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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