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Original Release Date: May 19, 2009
- 1. Bad Things - Jace Everett
- 2. Bleed 2 Feed - C.C. Adcock
- 3. Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams
- 4. Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
- 5. Swampblood - The Legendary Shack Shakers
- 6. Play With Fire - Cobra Verde
- 7. Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins
- 8. Christine’s Tune (A.K.A. Devil in Disguise) - The Flying Burrito Brothers
- 9. Two - Ryan Adams
- 10. Strange Love - Slim Harpo
- 11. From a Whisper to a Scream - Allen Toussaint
- 12. I Don’t Wanna Know - Dr. John
- 13. Golden State - John Doe, Kathleen Edwards
- 14. Bones - Little Big Town
- 'I Wanna Do Bad Things With You'
- Artist: Jace Everett
- Scene: Main Title Theme
Episodic music
Strange Love
- 'Y'All Think She'd Be Good to Me' (Artist: CC Adcock)
- Scene: A pickup truck with two coeds pulls into a convenience store when they spot a Tru Blood sign.
- 'Goodbye Good Lookin' (Artist: Robbie Fulks)
- Scene: Bon Temps locals eat at Merlotte's when Sookie first appears.
- 'Soulful Garage' (Artist: Southern Culture On The Skids)
- Scene: Sookie leans on the bar talking to Sam.
- 'The Dreaming Dead'
- Scene: Sookie turns around instinctively when Bill sits down at Merlotte's.
- 'Strange Love' (Artist: Slim Harpo)
- Scene: Sam tends bar while Sookie talks with Tara, who downs her second margarita.
- 'Lake Charles' (Artist: Lucinda Williams)
- Scene: Sookie tends to Bill after fighting off the Rattrays.
- 'Still Beating' (Artist: Josh Ritter)
- Scene: Jason shows up at Merlotte's and wants to go home with Dawn.
- 'Dang Good Stuff' (Artist: Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars)
- Scene: Sookie soaks up the sun as Jason arrives at Gran's house.
- 'Stumble And Pain'(Artist: Joseph Arthur)
- Scene: Sookie storms out of the kitchen into the bar and finds Bill waiting.
- Bones (Artist: Little Big Town)
- Scene: Plays during the end credits.
The First Taste
- 'Ricky Tin Ting' (Artist: Extreme Production Music)
- Scene: Lafayette listens to this on his car radio on his way to the party.
- 'Two Wheels' (Artist: Alligator Stew)
- Scene: Sookie's senses become heightened after drinking some vampire blood.
- 'Wat It Do' (Artist: Camboso)
- Scene: Lafayette and Tara are hanging at a backyard party.
- 'Girls' (Artist: Eleni Mandell)
- Scene: Music from Sookie's ipod. Jason, Tara, Gran and Sookie get to know Bill a little better.
- 'First Taste' (Artist: Fiona Apple)
- Scene: Jason and Bill argue over Vampire Rights.
- 'How The Day Sounds' (Artist: Greg Laswell)
- Scene: Jason and Tara are having a beer and getting friendly.
- 'Love Gotcha' (Artist: Coco Montoya)
- Scene: Jason is a little tied up at Dawn's place. Tara tells people at the bar what's on her mind.
- 'Honky Tonk Queen' (Artist: Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys)
- Scene: Renee defends Sookie from a rude customer at Merlotte's.
- 'Stumble And Pain'(Artist: Joseph Arthur)
- Scene: Sookie storms out of the kitchen into the bar and finds Bill waiting.
- Bones (Artist: Little Big Town)
- Scene: Plays during the end credits.
Mine
- 'Snake In the Grass' (Artist: Vallejo)
- Scene: Sookie is surrounded by hungry Vampires at the "Old Compton Place."
- 'Free Fall' (Artist: Pitch Black)
- Scene: Vampires close in on Sookie, but Bill scares them off.
- 'Downtown' (Artist: Alex Chilton)
- Scene: Tara and Sam discuss the Sookie and Bill situation while restocking the bar at Merlotte's.
- 'Far Far Away' (Artist: Wilco)
- Scene: Tara and Sam ask each other some personal questions while sitting on Sam's porch.
- 'From A Whisper To A Scream' (Artist: Allen Toussaint)
- Scene: Tara and Sam work out an arrangement.
- 'Mine' (Artist: Bing Crosby & Judy Garland)
- Scene: Sookie sneaks up on Bill while he is reading. They kiss passionately.
- 'Red Eyes And Tears' (Artist: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
- Scene: Bill shows up at Malcom's nest to make it clear to him and the other Vampire's that Sookie is off limits.
- 'Belly Disco' (Artist: Karminsky Experience)
- Scene: Tara flees her mother's drunken wrath and heads to Lafayette's house.
- 'Soccer Practice' (Artist: Jonny McGovern)
- Scene: Jason dances for "V" juice.
- 'Good Times' (Artist: Charlie Robison)
- Scene: Plays during the end credits.
Escape From Dragon House
- 'Brand New Cadillac' (Artist: Wayne "The Train" Hancock)
- Scene: Plays at Merlotte's.
- 'Not This Time' (Artist: Johnny Neel)
- Scene: Sookie listens in on everyone's thoughts at Merlotte's.
- 'Jack Me Up' (Artist: Jeff Laine)
- Scene: Sookie hears Dwight thinking that he is going to miss Dawn, and how he was always so scared to talk to her.
- 'Hoi Mai, Kuu Ipo' (Artist: Kalani Kinimaka & His Kanakas)
- Scene: Sookie and Bill are riding in Bill's car. Bill tells Sookie that she looks nice.
- 'Don't Fear The Reaper' (Artist: Heaven 17)
- Scene: Sookie and Bill have a drink at Fangtasia. Bill introduces Sookie to Longshadow.
- 'Demons' (Artist: Darkest Hour)
- Scene: Sookie questions Longshadow about Maudette.
- 'Escape From Dragon House' (Artist: Dengue Fever)
- Scene: Bill and Sookie drive home. Sookie asks Bill what language they are singing in.
- 'That Smell' (Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Scene: End Credits
Sparks Fly Out
- 'Kargyrra' (Artist: Huun Huur Tu)
- Scene: Bill rocks a little Tuvan throat music as he drives Sookie home.
- 'It's Alright' (Artist: Phil Phillips)
- Scene: Sam asks Sookie out on a date. (Fun Fact: Phil Phillips wrote the classic song "Sea Of Love").
- 'Feel Alright' (Artist: Steve Earle)
- Scene: Plays over establishing shot of Merlotte's and inside too.
- 'Sparks Fly Out' (Artist: Paul Burch)
- Scene: Plays at Crawdad's diner. Sam and Sookie dance and Sam tries to kiss her.
- 'I Play Chicken With The Train' (Artist: Cowboy Troy)
- Scene: Lafayette: "Excuse me, which of you ordered the hamburger with AIDS?"
- 'It's All Over But The Shoutin' (Artist: Southern Culture On The Skids)
- Scene: At Merlottes Randi Sue celebrates her divorce with a redneck mating dance.
- 'Wiggle Stick' (Artist: Reverend Horton Heat)
- Scene: Tara finds a V Juiced Jason and and a randy Randi Sue getting it on behind Merlottes.
Cold Ground
- 'You Shook Me All Night Long' (Artist: AC/DC)
- Scene: Jason's ringtone.
- 'We'll Meet Along the Way' (Artist: Hem)
- Scene: Tara consoles Sookie after her loss.
- 'Lullaby' (Artist: Dixie Chicks)
- Scene: Tara watches Bill and sees the effect he has on Sookie. Lafayette and Tara discuss whether it is really possible for Bill to love a human.
- 'Softly and Tenderly' (Artist: Singer at funeral)
- Scene: This southern hymn is sung at Gran's funeral.
- 'Half of You' (Artist: Cat Power)
- Scene: (Montage) Jason silently cries after being with Randi Sue, Sookie and Bill start to make love, Tara returns to her Mama's house and Sookie tells Bill to bite her neck.
- 'Cold Ground' (Artist: Mark Seliger's Rusty Truck)
- Scene: End Title
Burning House of Love
- 'Just Like Heaven' (Artist: The Watson Twins)
- Scene: Sookie and Bill chill in the bathtub talking while rocking this cover of The Cure.
- 'Rolex' (Artist: Tchaka Diallo)
- Scene: Jason walks in on Lafayette who is doing a strip tease for the camera. Jason wants more "V juice," but Lafayette send him on his way.
- 'The Last Time' (Artist: The Swampires)
- Scene: In Sam's trailer, Tara and Sam try to figure out their relationship.
- 'Frankie & Johnny' (Artist: Jeff Laine)
- Scene: Three hillbillies enter Merlotte's. Sam and Lafayette keep a close watch on them.
- 'Whiskey In My Whiskey' (Artist: The Felice Brother's)
- Scene: Lafayette has a hot surprise delivered to one of the hillbillies. Sookie admits to Arlene that she slept with Bill.
- 'Fuk Tha Prince A Pull Iz Dum' (Artist: Japanther)
- Scene: A Vampiress dances onstage at Fangtasia. Jason gets angry because the vamp bartender won't serve him. Amy knows what Jason wants and tells him to keep it on the DL.
- 'Leaving' (Artist: Country Fried)
- Scene: Malcolm and a gang of vampires descend on Merlotte's.
- 'Burning House Of Love' (Artist: The Knitters)
- Scene: Sam tells Malcolm and the rest of his crew to leave Merlotte's. A fight breaks out.
- 'Let It All Come Down' (Artist: G. DaPonte)
- Scene: Sam tells Sookie he doesn't want Bill or any other vampires coming around his bar.
- 'Sweet Jane' (Artist: Cowboy Junkies)
- Scene: Jason and Amy discuss Gaia, Pluto and the physics of vampire blood. They become one with the universe.
- 'Play With Fire' (Artist: Cobra Verde)
- Scene: End Credits
The Fourth Man in the Fire
- 'Comes and Goes (In Waves)' (Artist: Greg Laswell)
- Scene: Jason and Amy get to know each other after a night on V.
- 'Give it Up' (Artist: Lee Dorsey)
- Scene: Sam and Tara make up after their fight.
- 'Everybody's Got Somebody But Me' (Artist: Mildred Anderson)
- Scene: Sam and Tara talk in bed in his trailer.
- 'All In Good Time' (Artist: The Swampires)
- Scene: Sam catches Sookie taking vitamins in the back room of Merlotte's.
- 'Eternal Flame' (Artist: The Bangles)
- Scene: Eddie rocks this Bangles classic as he allows Lafayette to drain his blood in exchange for sex.
- 'The Fourth Man' (Artist: Johnny Cash)
- Scene: Jason and Amy watch while Lafayette leaves Eddie's house.
- 'I Want You So Hard' (Artist: The Eagles of Death Metal)
- Scene: End Credits (following a Vampire rumble).
Plaisir D'Amour
- 'Plaisir D'Amour' (Artist: Joan Baez)
- Scene: Jason and Amy drive while listening to Joan Baez. Later: Eddie is forced to watch Jason and Amy make love.
- 'A Fool In Love' (Artist: Ike & Tina Turner)
- Scene: Arlene, Amy and Sam talk about the upcoming wedding at Merlotte's.
- 'Kaki's Song' (Artist: The Mother Truckers)
- Scene: Sookie gives Bud Dearborn a hard time about the ongoing investigation.
- 'Lay Back Down' (Artist: Eric Lindell)
- Scene: Tara finds an envelope of cash in her locker at work.
- 'Swampblood' (Artist: Legendary Shack Shakers)
- Scene: Legendary Shack Shakers
- 'Walking The Dog' (Artist: Rufus Thomas)
- Scene:Sookie awakens to find a visitor at the end of her bed. End Credits.
I Don't Wanna Know
- 'You Can't Be a Beacon (If Your Light Won't Shine)' (Artist: Donna Fargo)
- Scene: Amy is draining Eddie's blood while discussing her morality and discovers the bottles of Tru Blood that Jason has hidden from her.
- 'Jesus Rhapsody, Pt. 1' (Artist: Preacher and the Saints)
- Scene: Tara takes her mama out for crawfish to celebrate getting rid of her "demon."
- 'Summer Memories' (Artist: John Mazzei)
- Scene: Muzak plays as Tara confronts Miss Jeannette at the drugstore.
- 'Hallowed Ground' (Artist: I See Hawks In L.A.)
- Scene: Eddie tells Jason that Amy is a psychopath before she and Jason head out to the party.
- 'I Don't Wanna Know About Evil' (Artist: Dr. John)
- Scene: End Credits
To Love is to Bury
- 'Wichita Lineman' (Artist: Glen Campbell)
- Scene: Sookie and Sam go to Big Patty's Pie House to ask some locals about a murdered woman who was carrying on with vampires.
- 'To Love Is To Bury' (Artist: The Cowboy Junkies)
- Scene: Jason and Amy make up.
- 'Two' (Artist: Ryan Adams)
- Scene: Sam and Sookie drive back from the pie restaurant while discussing love.
- 'West of Wichita' (Artist: G. DaPonte)
- Scene: Jason and Amy are back together, so Amy tries to convince Jason to do V one last time.
- 'Symphony No. 8 In G Major Op. 88: Adagio' (Artist: Philharmonia Slavonic)
- Scene: Maryann and Tara arrive at Maryann's estate.
- 'Pass You By' (Artist: Gillian Welch)
- Scene: End Credits
You'll Be the Death of Me
- 'Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune' (Artist: Claude Debussy)
- Scene: Tara awakens at Maryann's unbelievable home.
- 'Fantasy Pieces-Why?' (Artist: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Scene: Tara has breakfast at Maryann's.
- 'Christine's Tune (Devil In Disguise)' (Artist: The Flying Burrito Brothers)
- Scene: Renee sings along in his truck.
- 'Trouble' (Artist: Ray LaMontagne)
- Scene: Sookie makes iced teas for her and Renee. Sam is at Merlotte's asking about Sookie.
- 'You'll Be the Death of Me' (Artist: Johnny Winter)
- Scene: Sam flips on the radio at Merlotte's and asks Tara where her cousin Lafayette has been.
- 'Cut & Run' (Artist: Smartt Bell)
- Scene: A depressed Andy is passing out at Merlotte's. Sookie offers to call his sister for a ride.
- 'Ain't No Grave' (Artist: Crooked Still)
- Scene: End Credits.
Nothing But the Blood
- 'Butterfly By' (Artist: Extreme Music)
- Scene: Jason meets The Newlins at a Fellowship Of The Sun prayer breakfast.
- 'Hello Walls' (Artist: Faron Young)
- Scene: Sookie eats cereal in her kitchen and misses Gran.
- 'La Vem A Baiana' (Artist: Jussara Silveiera)
- Scene:At Maryann's pool Tara and Eggs share some fruit and a joint.
- 'Back to the Crossroads' (Artist: Todd Snider)
- Scene: Sam meets the new waitress, Daphne, in his office at Merlotte's.
- 'It's All Good Lovin To Me' (Artist: Black Toast)
- Scene: At Merlotte's, Jason chooses to "stay pure" rather then party with Shawnelle.
- 'All Night Through' (Artist: The Shaker Sisters)
- Scene: The Swinging Squares come to Merlotte's with their square dance trophy. Sookie wishes people would stop dying in Bon Temps.
- 'The Golden State' (Artist: John Doe featuring Kathleen Edwards)
- Scene: Eggs plants a sweet smooch on Tara at Merlotte's.
- 'Nothing But The Blood (Of Jesus)' (Artist: Randy Travis)
- Scene: End Credits
Keep This Party Going
- 'God Bless Texas' (Artist: Little Texas)
- Scene:Jason captures the flag during the flag football game.
- 'Jesus Asked Me Out Today' (Artist: Amanda and The God Rockets)
- Scene:There's a concert going on at the Fellowship of the Sun retreat.
- 'One Monkey Don't Stop No Show' (Artist: Sonny Terry)
- Scene:Tara is tending bar and Merlotte's is packed. Maryann gets Andy Bellfleur up on the dancefloor.
- 'Keep This Party Going' (Artist: The B-52's)
- Scene:Merlotte's is jumping. People dancing up a frenzy!
- 'Deeper Into You' (Artist: Johnny Hazzard)
- Scene: Lafayette begs to be turned, not killed.
- 'You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp)' (Artist: Chuck Prophet)
- Scene: End Credits.
Scratch my back
- 'Spell of Wheels' (Artist: Peter Case)
- Scene:It's closing time at Merlotte's, and Sam yells at Daphne for being short on her cash out
- 'Me Cai' (Artist: Pacifika)
- Scene:Maryann cooks up a feast for her party.
- 'Shooting The Rapids' (Artist: Courtesy of 5 Alarm)
- Scene:Terry drives his truck.
- 'Willin' to Crawl' (Artist: Johnny Neel)
- Scene:Eggs talks with Tara about learning to play the guitar, and Tara is late for work.
- 'What's a Man to Do' (Artist: Mule Newman)
- Scene: Sam leaves Tara a message to be careful.
- 'Sex and Candy' (Artist: Marcy Playground)
- Scene: Jessica gets dolled up to head over to Merlottes, where Hoyt catches her eye and joins her for a drink.
- 'Iced Ages' (Artist: DJ Acucrack)
- Scene: Sookie agrees to go to Dallas for $10,000.
- 'Power (Voodoo Version)' (Artist: King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan)
- Scene: The party is in full swing at Maryann's when Andy Bellfleur shows up.
- 'Destiny Complete' (Artist: The Angel)
- Scene: Tara gets upset when a topless woman throws herself at Eggs in the hot tub.
- 'Scratches' (Artist: Debbie Davies)
- Scene: End Credits.



