Claire Vaye Watkins

Following our ‘Music and Memory’ event, part of the launch of Granta 111: Going Back, we have been asking writers to choose five songs or pieces of music which are important to them, and which bring back particularly salient memories.

Claire Vaye Watkins

1. Willie Nelson: ‘Georgia On My Mind’
2. Neutral Milk Hotel: ‘Holland, 1945’
3. Jolie Holland: ‘Old Fashioned Morphine’
4. The Mountain Goats: ‘The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton’
5. Jay-Z: ‘My 1st Song’ (Dude! All the best hip hop is about memory and nostalgia!)