SUMMERTIME PUNCHLINE is my love-hate letter to a lot of things: standup comedy, hometowns, adolescence, people from our past to name a few – but I think it may just be a love-love letter to music. Music is ultimately what bonds Eddie and Del as teens, and just the same it’s what bonded me to this manuscript. My playlist (lovingly named “4ever & evergreen”) was so, so precious to me during the drafting and editing phases. The entire playlist is quite long and has gone through a few iterations, so choosing just five to talk about was so hard. But I think if you were to boil Summertime Punchline down into its purest musical essence, this is what you’d end up with. Enjoy!   This Town (feat. Shaky Graves)  by Trixie Mattel Pretty early into writing SUMMERTIME PUNCHLINE, I realized that Del would turn to music as a kinder, more-grounded way of telling jokes. I just then had to figure out––what the hell does Del sound like? What kind of music does she write? I’ve been a huge fan of Trixie Mattel and became a huge fan of her music after watching Moving Parts, a documentary about thee skinny legend…