Put A Record On: A Playlist for Going Home

Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email.

Reminder to mark your calendars for another edition of the Don't Rock The Inbox Book Club!! Next week, on Wednesday, April 8th at 7:30 p.m. CT, we'll be hosting a Zoom discussion of Alice Gerrard's memoir, Custom Made Woman: A Life In Traditional Music, for paying subscribers (subscribe here!).

All Don't Rock The Inbox readers can purchase a copy of Gerrard's book for 30% off from the UNC Press website with discount code 01SOCIAL30!! Thank you UNC Press, so excited to dig into this one! [Also, if you happen to be in Knoxville this weekend, Gerrard will be performing for free (!!) as part of an extremely cool-looking festival called "A Celebration of Women in Old-Time Music."]

We're moving this week! With a four-month-old! And 20 boxes of books and as many bags of records! 10 minutes away from my current house but still! It's a lot, but also a wonderful privilege — a move that we're making because we want to, not because we really need to; because a house that's a little more special (and somehow, cheaper) than our current one popped up and we decided to go for it. Oh and it has a pool 😎

Anyway, country music is kind of obsessed with home as concept — often small town wise, but also in terms of literal houses. I put together a playlist of some home-centric songs I like; what did I miss?