Okay, by song two, my iPod had settled into a groove, serving up some of Texas's finest alt-country ("whatever that is"), but by song six, things had just turned blue, like way blue.

1. 'The Great Leap Forwards,' Billy Bragg
2. 'Horseshoe Lounge,' Slaid Cleaves (okay, I know Slaid grew up in Maine, but he lives in South Austin now, and I'm guessing few Mainers seem as authentically Texan as Slaid does. But here's a question: when's he gonna put out another album of Broke Down caliber again?)
3. 'Transcendental Blues,' Steve Earle
4. 'Still Learning How to Fly,' Rodney Crowell
5. 'Go to Sleep Alone,' Jimmie Dale Gilmore
6. 'Give a Man a Home,' Ben Harper
7. 'Fake Plastic Trees,' Radiohead
8. 'Have You Forgotten,' Red House Painters
9. 'Nothing as it Seems [live],' Pearl Jam
10. 'Pilgrim,' Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band