Hal Crowther

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.

Hal Crowther

1. Gram Parsons: ‘Hickory Wind’
2. Willie Nelson: ‘Remember Me’ (NOT Eminem’s vile rant of the same
name)
3. John Prine: ‘Muhlenberg County’
4. Old Crow Medicine Show: ‘James River Blues’
5. Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer (of Savannah, GA): ‘Blues in the Night’

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