Song of the Day #6,142: ‘I’m Deranged’ – David Bowie

After Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch took his longest break between feature films. After a five-year pause, he released the neo-noir psychological horror film Lost Highway.

Partly inspired by the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the film is about a musician (Bill Pullman) who is convicted of murdering his wife (Patricia Arquette). While in prison, he suffers a breakdown and wakes up the next morning as a different person — a young mechanic played by Balthazar Getty. The confused authorities release the man, unsure of how we got there or what happened to the musician.

The movie then follows the mechanic as he gets entangled with a local gangster (Robert Loggia) and the man’s mistress (Arquette, again).

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Song of the Day #5,021: ‘Lost Highway’ – Willie Nelson with Kurt Nilsen

Today’s random selection comes from an EP that accompanied Lyle Lovett’s 2009 album Natural Forces. That album was half made up of Lovett’s covers of other Texas songwriters, and the EP — titled T For Texas, T From Tennessee — offered a sample of other tracks on the Lost Highway label.

Among the songs was today’s SOTD, actually titled ‘Lost Highway,’ a duet by Willie Nelson and Kurt Nilsen.

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