• Johnny Cash – I’ll throw a whole mess in, probably including things like Cocaine Blues, his cover of God’s Gonna Cut You Down and who knows what else.
• Tom Waits – it’s hard to resist adding Jockey Full of Bourbon and The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
• Richard Buckner – A Goodbye Rye – yeah, I know, I know. But I’m not having a rye tasting anytime soon so I’m throwing in other American whiskeys.
• Jesse Colin Young – Rye Whiskey
• Ugly Cassanova – Parasites
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’ – I See a Darkness
• Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
• Charlie Feathers – That Certain Female – Ok, I’m seriously wandering here but what the hell. Fun songs and who doesn’t drink bourbon while watching Kill Bill?
• Gypsy Kings – Hotel California (in spanish)
• Dock Boggs – I’m not sure which song yet, but God help our drunken brains if it comes on late in the evening.
• Lucinda Williams – Jug Band Music? I only have the Ramblin’ album, so something off that.
• Harry McClintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain – and heck, if we’re doing O Brother, Where Art Thou maybe Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby. I’m not sure how that applies here, but I like the feel of it.
• Tanya Tucker – Delta Dawn – For those who feel like hollerin’ along.
• R.E.M. – Swan Swan H – sure it’s obvious, but I like it so it’s in.

So it’s a start, but I’ll still need to keep poking around. Probably some AC/DC is required, but what else? I know there’s lots of low hanging fruit (Whiskey River, etc.) but I’m not sure I’m headed that way, yet. I rarely do a mix without an OtR song, so perhaps Trouble. Some old White Stripes, Iron & Wine and other standbys will probably show up, but any other inspired ideas?