A really great line from a movie I can’t remember says “The main thing that’s wrong with life is there’s no background music.” The following ever-growing list of songs (in very little particular order except for #1, #2, and #3) and their artists are what would be on the soundtrack if some fool ever made a movie about my life.

1. “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. “Jesus and Mama” by Confederate Railroad
3. “Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)” by Chris Tomlin
4. “All I Can I Do Is Write About It” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd
6. “Boondocks” by Little Big Town
7. “Every Mother’s Son” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. “Take It to the Limit” by The Eagles
9. “(What this World Needs is) A Few More Rednecks” by Charlie Daniels
10. “Roll, Gypsy, Roll” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
11. “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock
12. “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. “She Talks to Angels” by The Black Crowes
14. “Red, White, and Blue” by Van Zant (which is basically what’s left of Lynyrd Skynyrd)
15. “Midnight Rider” by The Allman Brothers Band
16. “The Needle and the Spoon” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
17. “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard
18. “Help Somebody” by Van Zant (See #12)
19. “Soulshine” by Gov’t Mule
20. “Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
21. “Long Haired Country Boy” by Charlie Daniels
22. “Tuesday’s Gone” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
23. “He Went To Paris” by Jimmy Buffett
24. “Jack Daniels If You Please” by David Allen Coe
25. “Seeing Things” by The Black Crowes
26. “Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)” by Pam Tillis
27. “Carry on my Wayward Son” by Kansas
28. “That’s Life” by Frank Sinatra
29. “Whipping Post” by The Allman Brothers Band
30. “The Tide is High” by Blondie
31. “Five Feet High and Rising” by Johnny Cash
32. “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd