Playlist: Cold Cold Heart

Christmas is long gone. New Years came and went. Essentially, the fun part of winter is over and we are left with the stark, cold, blunt and ass-sucky part known as January and February.

The snow in Tulsa has been on the ground for well over a week now and no change is in sight. Instead of waiting for a defrost of our freezer town, why not embrace it? During this time of resolutions and other life-changing goals, what better backdrop for self-reflection than the cold, white canvas of our long winter?

And like all good indulgent inner montages, you need a soundtrack. Since you can only listen to Bon Iver (For Emma = The most wintery of winter soundtracks) so many times, here's a playlist with an emotional coldness to match your shivering bones.

It's heavy on country and folk tracks because there is such an emotional bluntness to those tunes. I found them quite a match to the atmosphere of things.

I lack the ability to stream this right now, but most of these are easily accessible. Since I am in a generous mood, though, and something of an attention whore, if you pass along a link to my blog via Twitter or Facebook and ask nicely via a comment to this post, I'll send you a copy on CD.

1. "The Grand Tour" - George Jones
2. "Fifteen Keys" - Uncle Tupelo
3. "Smith & Jones Forever" - Silver Jews
4. "A Song for You" - Gram Parsons
5. "Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold" - Townes Van Zandt
6. "Antonia Jane" - Lightning Dust
7. "Alcohol" - The Kinks
8. "Tree Bones" - Port O'Brien
9. "Hollywood Hopeful" - Loudon Wainwright III
10. "Scissor Tales" - Samantha Crain
11. "Broken Heart" - Alexander "Skip" Spence
12. "Lua" - Connor Oberst & Gillian Welch
13. "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" - Loretta Lynn
14. "Let's Dance"(Cover of David Bowie) - M. Ward
15. "A Girl In Port" - Okkervil River
16. "Avalanche" - Leonard Cohen
17. "Three Days" - Castanets
18. "Write It Down In Red" - Cheyenne
19. "Romulus" - Sufjan Stevens
20. "Dark as a Dungeon" - Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Guy Clark