Book Playlist

A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado Playlist

by Jolie Gallagher

18 tracks

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Sep 3, 2026

This playlist uses frontier-era echoes—wide-open Americana, hymn-like folk restraint, and occasional cinematic sweep—to mirror Colorado’s boom-and-bust history, contested land, and shifting communities. Between instrumental “trail” atmospheres and lyric-driven reflections, the sequence tracks the book’s movement from hardship and settlement to legacy and hard-won belonging.

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Track List

18 songs

1

Moya

Afro House Galaxy · SOUL TO SOUL

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2

Thrown

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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3

saman

Ólafur Arnalds · re:member

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4

Wilderness

Explosions In The Sky · The Wilderness

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5

Experience

Ludovico Einaudi · In A Time Lapse

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6

The Weight of Water

SILEO · Notes on Atmosphere

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7

New York Minute

Herbie Hancock · The New Standard

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8

The Golden Age

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour · Fruit

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9

The Ballad of Ira Hayes

Johnny Cash · American Remains: The Best of Johnny Cash

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10

Colorado Kool-Aid

Red Sovine · Super Hits

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11

The House of the Rising Sun

The Animals · Country Music for the Road 2024

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12

I Will Wait

Mumford & Sons · Babel (Deluxe Version)

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13

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot · Rock'n Folk

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14

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Johnny Puleo & His Harmonica Gang · Western Songs Vol. 4

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15

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver · Back To Back: John Denver & Kenny Rogers

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16

Hurt

Trent Reznor · Melankhôlia: In Darkness Through the Light (Augmented Version)

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17

Wagon Wheel

Darius Rucker · Country Classics

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18

Late Night Lemonade

Luminary Flux · Late Night Lemonade

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