First Music Thread of the Off Season

[Bama fan]

This lady has so many great songs:

 

[Beemer]

the storiest of story telling tunes. heck, it's even got 'saga' in the friggin title for youse thread purists.
my, my this here anakin guy,
may be vader someday later now he's just a small fry.
and he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye,
saying 'soon i'm gonna be a jedi, soon i'm gonna be a jedi.

Weird Al is, always has been and always will be the man

 

[Bama fan]

Hard to pick one of their songs over another, but this has always struck me:

 

[Scud49]

"If you go down to Hammond, you'll never come back"

 

[Beemer]

This song is just fine on many levels:

Whenever I hear this song I automatically travel back in time to the summer of 1972. Strange but true.

 

[Scud49]

"Comes a time when you're drifting, comes a time when you settle down"

 

[Scud49]

"When a girl can't understand what it is that a woman gives a man
And if you're not gonna love it, oh, you better move on'....

 

[AzHusky]

Don't know how to post, but "Driving the Last Spike" by Genesis

 

[64Zcode]

Out on the fringes as an artist, but pretty well known as a producer.

 

[quavik]

Here's one you probably remember (along with drive-ins and making out in the front seat)...yep, the night's been moving...

 

[Hoops66]

This one of my favorite Dolly songs. She really knows how to "paint" a nostalgic story. Listen to this even if you're not from the South and she'll bring you there in 2 minutes.

 

[bantamlaker]

April 4th was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of MLK.

 

[TGW93]

Dolly wrote the story, but these two nail it.

 

[Scud49]

"Won't you come and take me home, I've been too long at the fair"....

 

[quavik]

This is such a powerful song; i suspect most of us knew a Sam Stone. I had two best friends in high school, both went off to Viet Nam, one came back more or less intact and one came back permanently shattered... I'm guessing we can probably relate to the sentiments.

 

[Scud49]

"Well I'm sittin' down in San Anton'
Waiting on an eight o'clock train
My woman left me here last night
Things ain't been quite the same
I gotta get back to Dallas".....

 

[quavik]

JP again, i suppose we could fill this up with his songs but i'll cherry pick another favorite:

 

[cullaville]

When the levee breaks original



led zeppelin version

When the Levee Breaks (Remaster)

 

[quavik]

Last one of the evening - as sung by Bobby Hatfield (if you know who he was you and i are about the same age brother). He remembered everything i taught him on this take (LOL):

 

[ClifSpliffy]

hey! the op sez 'songs that tell a story,' and not 'songs that only tell a sad story.'
i get that cw owns the ballad game, but there are plenty of cw tunes that aren't all whiny and sad, talking aboot how his girl ran off with his horse, or how his 3 legged dog can't play twister, or whatever. now take this tune, the title might imply, to the predisposed cranky, that the bad luck 'when it rains it pours' would be imminent, but it ain't. it's actually the good luck flowing.


and if the likeminded hear it, well, lets just say the refrain 'and i ain't got to see my ex future mother in law any more' resonates.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

tru dat story.

 

[64Zcode]

hey! the op sez 'songs that tell a story,' and not 'songs that only tell a sad story.'
i get that cw owns the ballad game, but there are plenty of cw tunes that aren't all whiny and sad, talking aboot how his girl ran off with his horse, or how his 3 legged dog can't play twister, or whatever.

Ok, so if one was to venture into the 'silly' realm, no foul? (Just asking for a friend)

 

[Aluminny69]

A dorm mate had this amazing album back in 1967. One side is oldies, the other ballads. This song is about the Galveston Flood of 1900. Amazing bottleneck guitar. ( Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Steve UConn72]

There are about a bazillion C&W ballads but I'm trying for songs that are varied in the genre.

Thanks for posting this. These guys were my favorite group from the mid-'60's, or maybe ever. We lost THIS Jay (Black, the second of three Jays who were the lead singers) recently. They called him "The Voice," for obvious reasons.

A couple from Johnny Horton from around 1960 that didn't make the list yet (that I saw, anyway) - "Sink the Bismark" and "The Battle of New Orleans. Also, Mary Robbins' "El Paso." I'm no techno wiz, so if someone wants to post the music, feel free.