TwinStar Playlist
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Good stories conjure up images, but sometimes they’re even better with a soundtrack. Here’s a short playlist that pairs well with TwinStar.
(Chapter: Fly Fishing)
Mountain Dance
Dave Grusin
I bought this album in 1979. Dave Grusin is a Colorado musician whose melodic intelligence shaped some of American film’s most iconic themes — St. Elsewhere, On Golden Pond. Mountain Dance has lived in my ear for nearly fifty years, and when I needed Jenny Canyon’s theme, it was always going to be this. Sunny, bright, rigorously joyful. A woman whose energy shined in every room she ever entered — and kept shining, somehow, even after she left them.
(Chapters: Remote Control/Melrose)
Save My Baby
Backdraft Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer
Zimmer earlier in his career still threaded melody through the percussion — you could find the tune inside the pounding. That's what this track does, and it's exactly what the terror of Flight 721 required. Pure texture numbs. A melody under pressure raises the stakes.
(Chapter: Fish Lover)
The Flipper TV Show Theme
Geek Lover
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s will feel this one before they consciously recognize it — bouncy choral harmonies, hints of harp and flute, an earworm that never fully left. The Fish Lover’s fixation on all things aquatic runs deep. This is almost certainly on his playlist. Knowing him, probably a CD.
(Chapter: Allison)
Rainbow
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves writes with a melodic precision that makes the sharp lyrics feel inevitable. You can almost feel Rainbow filling every room of Allison’s house — and underneath it, the crackle of packing tape stretching across boxes as she carefully packs up a past life. She’s done this before. She’ll be fine. She knows both things simultaneously.
(Chapter: The Hound)
Oblivion
Astor Piazolla
Describing Oblivion is like trying to describe a complex Malbec — you reach for words and find them approximate. Piazzolla’s fuller orchestral version is the one. It moves the way Connie moves: in orbit around Nestor, around Allison, around GW — deliberate, soft, smoky, and entirely in control. She was never lost in any of those relationships. She was the gravity.
(Chapter: Landing)
Things are Getting Better
David Benoit
Another from my personal collection. The opening bars sparkle like a tailwater stream cutting through pine and aspen — Benoit plays with a brightness that never oversimplifies. Listen for the counter melody threading underneath: two lines finding each other without quite saying so. GW and Allison standing at the stream, watching the fish go. A future neither of them has named yet.