January’s List

#365Songs: 31 songs from January

Christopher Watkins/Preacher Boy
No Wrong Notes
2 min readFeb 2, 2024

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Quite a way to waltz into 2024.

Just as Steamboat Willie and All Quiet on the Western Front were entering the public domain, we were kicking off another #365Songs Series. We started off with Sid Sriram, and we ended on Grandaddy. Along the way, we listened to everyone from Stevie Wonder, Damien Jurado, and Phineas Newborn Jr. to Phosphorescent, Hoodoo Gurus, and Robert Pete Williams.

Are you following the playlist as it grows?

Eclectic? You bet. Here’s a the full list for the month:

Do The Dance — Sid Sriram
Drink Before the War — Sinéad O’Connor
Paint The Town Red — Doja Cat
Within (Drumless Edition) — Daft Punk
Blue Factory Flame — Songs: Ohia
2 + 2 = 5 — Radiohead
Silver Joy — Damien Jurado
You Haven’t Done Nothin’ — Stevie Wonder
He Was A Friend Of Mine — Dave Van Ronk
Ventilator Blues — The Rolling Stones
Lady Day and John Coltrane — Gil Scott-Heron
Rear View Mirror — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Oh Well (Pt. 1) — Fleetwood Mac
American Jesus — Bad Religion
Anything Lost (Can Be Found Again) — DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ
Oleo — Phineas Newborn Jr.
The Place I Live — Mount Eerie
Downtown Venus — P.M. Dawn
I Want You Back — Hoodoo Gurus
Insistor — Tapes ‘n Tapes
Not — Big Thief
Gatti rossi — Alternate Take (Long Version) — Bruno Nicolai
L’ours — Version acoustique — Christophe Maé, Youssou N’Dour
Revelator — Phosphorescent
Right Back to It — Waxahatchee,MJ Lenderman
Prove It To You — Brittany Howard
I’m Going Slow (Live) — Robert Pete Williams
Waiting on a Ghost to Haunt You — The Reds, Pinks and Purples
United In Grief — Kendrick Lamar
What Does It Mean To Be Free — Thomas Azier
Watercooler — Grandaddy

Keep on listening. Songs matter.

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Christopher Watkins/Preacher Boy
No Wrong Notes

Songwriter, poet. Author of "Famished" (Pine Row Press). New Preacher Boy album "Ghost Notes" due Fall 2024 (Coast Road Records).