Many thanks to Roz Morris for featuring me this week on the Underground Soundtrack, which explores the music that accompanied the creation of a novel. In my case, Forest of Fortune came out of the ambient droning of slot machines, the frenzy of punk rock, and chaos of an unexpected death. 

When the anger passed and the sadness moved in I turned to Dillinger Four’s Civil War, the saddest punk rock record I’ve ever heard. The songs are suffused with melancholy that I drank up like the cheap vodka I drank on the long drive to and from the Indian reservation every day.

Read the rest of the soundtrack. If you’ve never seen Jay Reatard play Blood Visions live, check this out. This also seem like a good place to link to “The Haunted Casino” which the Mind Spiders wrote and performed for the Forest of Fortune book trailer.