Songs for when you wake up and find out the mayor’s been arrested

And so it goes.

I woke up around 745ish and turned on the radio. 95.7 JAMZ was live from Alabama State University in Montgomery but still managed to break the story to me. Yay! It’s fitting that I’d get my news from a dude named “Buck Wilde”. Here’s the story according to CBS42.com. I’m watching U.S. attorney Alice Martin giving a press conference right now, so here are some songs to get you in the “Is this happening?! WTF!” mood:

Yay for hastily thrown together list. Feel free to leave all your fitting suggestions in the comment section too. Seriously though, I’m ganking 5-6 of these to listen to right after this just because they are good songs.

• the obligatory “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” (originally by Sonny Curtis & The Crickets, but you can twerk it to the Clash or the Dead Kennedys… whatever’s clever.)
• “Criminal” by Fiona Apple
• “Holloway Jail” by The Kinks
• “Jailbreak” by Thin Lizzy
• “Folsom Prison Blues” – Johnny Cash (or “Cocaine Blues” but that’s a little intense for an SEC indictment)
• “Locked Up” by Akon (“they won’t leeeet me oooooout…”)
• “Long Trip Alone” by Dierks Bentley (because I like his hair)
• “Chain Gang” by Sam Cooke
• “Not Even Jail” by IIIIINNNNTTTTERRRPPPPOOOLLLL (my favorite!)
• “Tupelo County Jail” by the Old 97s
• “Mirror Mirror (Damsel in Distress)” by the Violent Femmes
• “What Jail is Like” by The Afghan Whigs
• “Back on the Chain Gang” by the Pretenders
• “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard
• “Mercy Seat” by Nick Cave