Setting is central to Alex’s and my novel, Confluence. There are nearly eighty named places in the book, places that are not so much backgrounds to Teddy/Ted’s life as markers of relationship.
Part of place is the music of the day. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting some of the novel’s many songs, along with a brief note about their importance to the story.
The song titles below link to YouTube recordings (which unfortunately begin with ads).
Songs added weekly.
SONG 1 | Great Balls of Fire
From Bob's No. 2, 2008, Alex Turner
SONG 1 | Great Balls of Fire (1957)
Recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records.
Written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer.
From the stories “Spawning Ground” and “Drive-in”
Has a song ever marked a turning point in your life, so that years later it evokes all its joy and heartbreak? Jerry Lee Lewis’s pulse-pounding anthem to love and sex brings to a crescendo the complicated relationship that lies at the heart of the novel—that of Teddy and his mercurial best friend, Wade.