I’ve got nothing but love and history for the Biggest Little City in the World. I lived there for fifteen years or an eternity, I never can figure out which. Reno is where I got married, eloping from Portland. I’ve set plenty of books in Reno. To paraphrase House of Pain, Reno gets all my love.

Presented with occasional commentary – for your reference and mine – The Reno Playlist. Sell your soul for rock and roll, only a nickel a piece.

(Ongoing)

• Virginia Avenue – Tom Waits
• Friend of the Devil – Grateful Dead
• 45 Miles – Todd Snider
• All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) – R.E.M.
• Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
• Cowboys’ Christmas Ball – The Killers
• Road to Reno – Thomas Dolby
• Philadelphia Lawyer – Woody Guthrie
• I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash
• Wrong Side of the Road – Tom Waits
• You Can Dance – Bryan Ferry
• One Step Ahead of the Blues – J.J. Cale
• A Railroad Bum – Jim Reeves
• Thanksgiving in Reno – Too Much Joy
• Kentucky Gambler – Merle Haggard
• Hollywood the Second Time – Wall of Voodoo
• Hang on St. Christopher – Tom Waits