But does it not call out for "Ring of Fire"?
To legitimise the frivolity and taste, lack of, let me offer a number of versions:
Johnny Cash (natch), Carlene Carter, Blondie, Elvis Costello, This kid named Miles,Grace Jones, Joaquin Pheonix, Allison Moorer,Dwight Yoakam,Lucy Kaplansky, Foster and Allen (I haven't tested this one!)Eric Burdon, Starsailor, Hank Wangford and the Bhundu Boys (together!) There are also, again unheard, many more C&W types, some electronic ones and the Leningrad Cowboys, which I have not the courage to download.

OK, she was born in Belgium and lives in the USA, but her music is so richly tinged with Middle Eastern and North African flavours that I've always found her CDs the perfect accompaniment to a balti evening. "Diaspora" is the album closest to my heart, being the first of her CDs I heard, but they're all filled with fantastic music, fantastic atmosphere, and fantastic singing. And I'd probably nominate her as my "hottie", too, if asked. Which is a bonus.

Surely the idea at a party is to play music you and your guests like, the worst dinner parties are the ones which are an exercise in the host showing off their good taste be it in pretenious food, drink, decor and even music. The idea that there's a perfect tune for eating bacon is I think a list too far even fro me Mr L. Ist the Arch Duke of Listeria and upper Saxony.

one Dinner Party Album of the day. Throught the 90s it went from Björk's Debut to Dummy by Portishead to Air's Moon Safari and ended up at Moby's Play - you would hear at least one of those at every single social event it seemed, without fail.