One of my favorite parts of writing ONCE MORE FROM THE TOP was going back through decades of country and pop music and imagining my protagonist Dylan Read in the context of music history and in conversation with the greats. While you can listen to the official ONCE MORE FROM THE TOP playlist on Spotify, here are five songs that were left on the cutting room floor:   Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton   I listened to loads of Dolly as I was writing OMFTT; the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America” was a key research text for me. “Here You Come Again” is, ironically, one of Dolly’s very few hits that she herself did not write—and yet it’s important in the canon because it’s her first true crossover single. The saying goes that country girls can’t go pop, but before Dylan does it in OMFTT, there was Taylor, and before Taylor there was Shania, and before Shania there was Dolly.   Dear Miss Loretta – Carly Pearce feat. Patty Loveless   Dylan is drawn to country music because it has a language and a set of conventions that—as a chronic Good Girl and rule-follower—she can learn and feel safe…