Sunday: Inspired By Folkie

Many of us were inspired by Folkie Booknerd’s  musical choices.  Her wide-ranging and open-minded knowledge of music was inspirational.  In my case, it introduced me to so much music I didn’t know.  So I’ve recently been going through Folkie’s blips and have pulled together the ‘Folkie Blip Playlist’.  

You can find the link here. It’s on Spotify - if you don’t have an account, you’ll still be able to listen but will have to tolerate some ads.

And, because one rabbit hole leads to another, here is a list of the books that Folkie referenced.  Those with asterisks are the ones she particularly rated:

The Best Of Everything’, Rona Jaffe
‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society’, Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
‘A Visit From The Goon Squad’, Jennifer Egan******
‘Paradoxical Undressing’ Kristin Hersh
‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’, Jeanette Winterson
‘Fortunate Son’ Walter Mosley
‘The Stepford Wives’ Ira Levin
‘Alone In Berlin’ Hans Fallada
‘How I Live Now’ Meg Roscoe
‘The City And The City’, China Mieville *****
‘Embassytown’, China Miéville
‘Capital’, John Lanchester*****
‘Prodigal Summer’, Barbara Kingsolver*****
‘Reality, Reality’, Jackie Kay
‘Oryx And Crake Trilogy’, Margaret Atwood
‘The Universe vs Alex Woods’, Gavin Extence
‘Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys’, Viv Albertine
‘The Heart Goes Last’, Margaret Atwood
‘Lucky’, Professor Green
‘Don’t Suck, Don’t Die’, Kristin Hersh
‘Hope In The Dark’, Rebecca Solnit
‘Animal: The Autobiography Of A Female Body’, Sara Pascoe
‘Theft By Finding’, David Sedaris
‘Red Dust Road’, Jackie Kay
‘Conversations With Friends’, Sally Rooney
‘Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl’, Carrie Brownstein
‘Lie With Me’, Philippe Besson*****
‘Waging Heavy Peace’, Neil Young
‘The Luminaries’, Eleanor Catton
‘Just Kids’, Patti Smith
‘My Name Is Why’, Lemn Sissay
‘East West Street’, Philippe Sands
‘Bunnyman’, Will Sergeant
‘Progressive Patriot’, Billy Bragg
‘Old Babes In The Wood’, Margaret Atwood
‘Shuggie Bain’, Douglas Stuart****
‘Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success’, Miki Berenyi
‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs Of A Geezer’, Jah Wobble
‘The Night Alphabet’, Joelle Taylor
‘Unsuitable: A History Of Lesbian Fashion’, Eleanor Medhurst
‘Happenstance’, Carol Shields
‘Lessons in Chemistry’, Bonnie Garmus