My Playlist for VINTAGE TRAILERS AND BLACKMAILERS
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Music is a huge part of my life and my writing life. I have lots of playlists for my research, writing, and editing time. Music is always on in some form or fashion at our house.
In VINTAGE TRAILERS AND BLACKMAILERS, Jules Keene runs a glamping (glamorous camping) resort nestled in the beautiful, Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Fern Valley is a few miles west of Charlottesville. Her parents bought the traditional campground back in the 1970s before she was born, and after her divorce from the Idiot, she returned home and helped her dad update the campground and restore vintage trailers. Jules saved a bunch of classics from the scrapheap and preserved their history and created some upscale places for her guests to visit. She used her background in interior design to theme and decorate each one.
Here’s the playlist I created for the first book in the Jules Keene Glamping Mystery series. The songs reflect Jules’s character and life in the mountains of Virginia.
Bruce Hornsby’s “Mandolin Rain”
Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”
Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown”
Charley Pride’s “Mountain of Love”
Darius Rucker’s “Homegrown Honey”
Darius Rucker’s “Southern State of Mind”
Gloria Gaylor’s “I Will Survive”
Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High”
Jake Owen’s “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”
Jason Aldean’s “Tattoos on This Town”
Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n Roll”
John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
Mark Wills’ “Nineteen Something”
Marvin Gaye’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
Rascal Flatt’s “Fast Cars and Freedom”
Robbin Thompson’s “Candy Apple Red”
