Observations

Our Louisville Playlist (so far)

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Nov. 10, 2026

Each week, we ask a growing group of us in town questions about what’s best (and what might be a bit better) in our city, sometimes a fun one like…

What should be Louisville’s theme song?

Our group suggested more than 75 different songs, and I’ve got them loaded into a jukebox below, organized into Louisville-centric categories genres (with the complete playlist beneath that).

But before we get to all of that, I wanted to share the song that so many people said MUST, and just as many people said MUST NOT, be Louisville’s theme song. If you’d like to see the answer, click on this jukebox label…

Which single song did lots of us say SHOULD, and just as many of us said SHOULD NOT, be Louisville’s theme song?

And now, our Louisville Playlist, with our songs fitting into five main categories: Coming Home, Bourbon & Horses, Hometown Pride, Grit & Hard Truths, Weird & Welcoming.

Or scroll below for our complete list of songs *so far*. “Still and always a work in progress,” as my friend Lauren Jones Mayfield, executive director of the Center for Interfaith Relations, once said to me. So if you don’t see what your pick would be, just let me know and I’ll add it to the mix: josh@louisville.com