Suttree

Book Playlist

Suttree Playlist

by Cormac McCarthy

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 10, 2026

These tracks trace Suttree’s riverbound life in Knoxville: blues, country, folk, and spare instrumentals evoke the Tennessee River, the city’s marginal community, and the humor and hardship of its eccentrics. The sequence moves between solitude, rough fellowship, and a hard-won tenderness, with a few songs reflecting particular characters and the book’s mortality-haunted world.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Paris, Texas

Ry Cooder · Music by Ry Cooder

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2

Blue In Green

Miles Davis · The Jazz Masters - 27 Classic Performances From The Columbia Masterpieces Series

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3

Peace Piece

Bill Evans · Everybody Digs Bill Evans

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4

Windy And Warm

Chet Atkins · Windy And Warm

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5

Glass Museum

Tortoise · Millions Now Living Will Never Die

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6

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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7

On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean

John Fahey · The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death

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8

A Calf Born In Winter

Khruangbin · A Calf Born in Winter

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9

Perpetuum Mobile

Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)

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10

Highway Anxiety

William Tyler · Modern Country

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11

Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): Promenade I

Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition

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12

The Entertainer

Scott Joplin · Fingerbreaker: Classics Of Ragtime And Early Jazz Piano

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13

Pancho and Lefty

Townes Van Zandt · Rear View Mirror

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14

Goodbye

Steve Earle · Train A Comin'

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15

Look at Miss Ohio

Gillian Welch · Soul Journey

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16

Sam Stone

John Prine · John Prine

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17

Louis Collins

Mississippi John Hurt · Today!

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18

Jockey Full Of Bourbon

Tom Waits · Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

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19

Decoration Day

Drive-By Truckers · Decoration Day

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20

Elephant

Jason Isbell · Southeastern

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