Yes, it was clever how you started with “Please Come Home Baby" by Tom Waits and finished with Mel Torm's “Comin' Home Baby," but there's more to the job than making “High Fidelity" lists.
Or is there?
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Meet Gary Calamar, a man whose hilltop home has a garage with sliding shelves three- deep to handle just the old stuff in his CD library. Calamar is a sort of Mr. Sunday Night when it comes to handpicked music; there's his KCRW-FM (89.9) show The Open Road, and it's also the night HBO airs True Blood, the vampire show that has music in the, uh, spooky vein but also songs speaking to the Louisiana setting.
True Blood, which has its season finale tonight and has been renewed for a second season, is part of a string of shows Calamar has worked on, along with House, M.D.,Six Feet Under,Weeds,Dexter and Entourage.
On some, such as the 1970s-steeped Swingtown, he looks for time-capsule hits viewers will recognize instantly, but with something like the quirky Weeds, the soundtrack is far more of a pop-culture safari.
“Sometimes things are too right on the nose, you want to go off of that sometimes and surprise people. You certainly don't want to ever bore them."
