The dive bar I'm thinking of is dingy, dark as night on a sunny Tuesday morning, smoke filled, smells of beer soaked carpet and lysol, and has a bunch of hard-luck, hard-livin', hard-nosers belly up to the bar.
Wow - that's some dark stuff. I think your playlist could have been playing when Mickey Rourke met Faye Dunaway in Barfly.
1. Sly and the Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
2. The Rolling Stones: Honky Tonk Women
3. CCR: Fortunate Son (gotta have some politics, but with a great beat)
4. The Beatles: Got To Get You Into My Life
5. The Who: Magic Bus (or a dozen others)
6. Holly Cole: We're Having a Heat Wave
7. Gram Parsons: I Can't Dance
8. Emmylou Harris: Feeling Single, Seeing Double
9. The Grateful Dead: Me And My Uncle
10.Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues