Ariel Delgado Dixon’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Sourland

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Ariel Delgado Dixon’s novel Sourland is an immersive literary thriller, brilliantly original and atmospheric. Kirkus wrote of the book: “[A] gritty neo-Western, complete with double crosses, shootouts, rattletrap pickup trucks, a herd of cattle, and a dog named Pistol . . . Dixon’s wealth of knowledge about both legal and illegal farming practices and her feel for the texture of rural queer living infuse this sweaty, smoky thriller with vibrant realism . . . Skunky, in the best possible way.” In her own words, here is Ariel Delgado Dixon’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Sourland: Sourland is a novel about being sticky-stuck in the thrall of weed: growing it, making money…