The following is the excerpt that adorns the inside CD jacket for the Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 Soundtrack. As a fan above everything else I found the words very moving and sentimental. I’m glad to know we have fine people like Jason Katims taking care of our show.

“One cannot understate the importance of music to Friday Night Lights. It functions in so many ways — whether it’s adrenaline feeding a football game; out of control hip hop at a high school football party; a lilting country tune in a bar as Coach Taylor unloads to Buddy Garrity; or, as is the lion’s share of this collection, if it’s those unexpected, beautiful, lonely songs that bring you deeper into the core of this soulful, poetic, slightly sad but still hopeful, one of a kind television show.

I’m very proud of this collection of music beacuse it is a true representation of not only the most powerful songs, but the songs that have been used most powerfully in the recent seasons of FNL. ‘Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing’ brings me to that exruciating moment of Coach Taylor forfeiting his first game managing the Lions. ‘Something Good This Way Comes’ brings me to the hopeful and bittersweet opening images of the Season Three Finale; ‘If It’s the Beaches’ makes me think of Tyra and Landry reuniting at her front door as Landry is about to break another girls’ heart; ‘Killed Myself When I Was Young’ brings me to the football field where the battle worn Lions finally triumph and win a game. And there is no music that taps into the soul of the show better than W.G. Snuffy Walden’s beautiful main title theme (along with the rest of his and Bennett Salvay’s beautiful score).

If you are reading this it means you either have a lot of time on your hands or more likely you are a die hard fan of the show. And for that I am forever indebted. I hope you enjoy this music.”

–Jason Katims

Executive Producer, Friday Night Lights