Blood Meridian

Book Playlist

Blood Meridian Playlist

by Cormac McCarthy

19 tracks

balanced

Aug 31, 2026

5 mixes for this book

Blood Meridian is a bleak, myth-smashing Western—restless, brutal, and relentless—so this playlist leans into cinematic instrumentals, harsh Americana grit, and songs that feel like survival sermons on a borderland road. The instrumental half mirrors the novel’s desolation and momentum, while the vocal tracks add human voices for the Kid’s outsider perspective, the violent economy around scalp-hunting, and the ever-present pull toward night and judgment.

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Track List

19 songs

1

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber · Klassische Musik zur Beerdigung - Beerdigungsmusik

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2

Clapping Music

Steve Reich · Steve Reich

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3

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis Sextet · Fillmore West, April 1970

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4

Xtal

Aphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works 85-92

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5

Miserere

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Miserere

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6

Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Melody ("Simple Gifts")

Aaron Copland · American Anthem

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7

The Girl From Ipanema

Stan Getz · Silver Memories: Reminiscence

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8

Teardrop

Massive Attack · Chill Beats

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9

The Mariner's Revenge Song

The Decemberists · Picaresque

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10

Whitehouse Road

Tyler Childers · Purgatory

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11

In Hell I'll Be in Good Company

The Dead South · Good Company

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12

Wagon Wheel

Old Crow Medicine Show · O.C.M.S.

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13

Jubilee Street

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Push the Sky Away

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14

Bartender's Blues

George Jones · Bartender's Blues

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15

Legacy

Five Finger Death Punch · Legacy

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16

The Killing Moon

Echo & the Bunnymen · Happy 80s

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17

The Weight

The Band · American Rock Hits

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18

The Place Where He Inserted the Blade

Black Country, New Road · Ants From Up There

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19

Stone by Stone

Luminary Flux · Again Again

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