The iPod Serves up a Double Shot of Ry

The little elf in my iPod who operates the shuffle function sorted through 12,030 songs for this month's random playlist and came up with two songs from Ry Cooder's excellent-but-overlooked 1972 "Boomer's Story." It pleases me that one of the songs was "Crow Black Chicken," with the memorable line "I like chicken pie."

• "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down," Waylon Jennings
• "Bring It on Home," Led Zeppelin
• "Cherry Ball Blues," Ry Cooder
• "Afterglow 61," Son Volt
• "Put Me Out of Your Misery," Stephen Bruton
• "Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth," Jimmie Vaughan and Omar
• "Crow Black Chicken," Ry Cooder
• "Trouble," Little Feat
• "That's Love," The Resentments
• "Sympathy for the Devil," Rolling Stones
• "Too Much Fun," Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
• "Well, Well, Well," Lucinda Williams
• "Moanin' Low," Billie Holliday