Romney Releases His Playlist - NYTimes.com The 19-song playlist released Friday by Mitt Romney on Facebook, called "On the Road," has surely been vetted by his campaign to make his image a little more down-home. The songs extol love and perseverance, maturity and positive aspiration, adding a little road-weary loneliness to deflect thoughts of cold elitism. It starts with "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (the best-selling version from the soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"), which proclaims, "I've seen trouble all my days." The playlist is long on mainstream country hits and security-blanket oldies like Willie Nelson's version of "Over the Rainbow." And it's sparing with music released in the last decade, with a few exceptions, like Kid Rock's 2010 "Born Free," which has become a Romney campaign song. There are just two songs by African-Americans, both plush ballads of fidelity: Nat King Cole's "Stardust" and the Commodores" "Only You." The lone song by a woman is Carrie Underwood's million-selling 2007 hit "All-American Girl," in which a guy who wanted a baby boy happily changes his mind when a daughter arrives. For baby-boomer nostalgia, there's the Beach Boys" "Good Vibrations," Del Shannon's "Runaway," Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons" "December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) " and two yearning Roy Orbison songs, "Crying" and "In Dreams." And as a wry reminder of Mr. Romney's days as governor of Massachusetts - mixed with a poke at government agencies - there's the Kingston Trio's comic "M.T.A." (better known as "Charlie on the M.T.A."). But the playlist's preferred male voices are good old boys like Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Toby Keith and Johnny Cash, who for reasons unknown is represented by a live version of "Ring of Fire" rather than the studio hit. Along with Mr. Orbison, just one other act has two songs on the Romney playlist: the Killers, a band from Las Vegas. Perhaps not coincidentally, last year the band's leader, Brandon Flowers, became a spokesman for a national media campaign declaring "I'm a Mormon." The Killers" "Read My Mind," from 2006, never reached the Top 40 in the United States, but its Springsteen-lite music and earnest lyrics mention "Main Street" and insist, "I'm gonna turn this thing around." The other Killers selection - "Somebody Told Me" - was a much bigger hit, but a much more improbable campaign song. Its chorus touches on jealousy and androgyny: "Well, somebody told me/you had a boyfriend/Who looked like a girlfriend/That I had in February of last year." Still, that chorus goes on to think positive in ways a candidate can appreciate. "It's not confidential," Mr. Flowers sings. I've got potential. Mitt Romney's Spotify Playlist Song Artist I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow The Soggy Bottom Boys Read My Mind The Killers December, 1963″ [Oh What A Night!] Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash Somebody Told Me The M T A (The Boston Subway Song)  The Kingston Trio Good Vibrations The Beach Boys "Desperado" - (Live) Clint Black Crying Roy Orbison "Only You" - Long Version Commodores Runaway Del Shannon It's Your Love Tim McGraw As Good As I Once Was Toby Keith Born Free Kid Rock Over The Rainbow Willie Nelson Stardust Nat King Cole In Dreams "Somebody Like You" (Album Version) Keith Urban All-American Girl Carrie Underwood