OT: Songs That Indicate, Hint, or Imply Direction or Distance...of Some Type

[Jackcatscal]

How about the excellent Dylan song "When the Ship Comes In"? Here's a terrific version by the Clancy Brothers.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Always loved this song. Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[WiseWillie]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

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[Jackcatscal]

"When the Levee Breaks" is a great old blues song written in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy. There have been some terrific versions of the song. I especially like the one by Alison Krauss (whom I'll see in San Diego tomorrow) and Robert Plant. There's also a killer version by Beth Hart (and we saw her perform it a couple of years ago). (I won't mention the "original" Led Zeppelin version, since they recorded and released it with no credit to the original Black artists who wrote it.) The song is about flooding in Mississippi that forced the residents to escape north.





Beth Hart - When The Levee Breaks (21.07.2023, Stuttgart, Jazz Open)

 

[Jackcatscal]

Let's do that again. Here's the killer Beth Hart version of "When the Levee Breaks."

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Great, great slow song.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[WiseWillie]

"Walkin in the wild west end, walking with ya wild best friend"....

Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits live, late 70's, no kids with cell phones taking those selfies etc:

An audience with no selfies? Funny but true.. Polaroids or Kodaks maybe?

 

[Scud49]

Radar Love - "last car to pass, here I go"

 

[Scud49]

"I've been driving about 6 hours, gotta reach that Arkansas line"

 

[Bigboote]

I've got a couple from Stevie.

 

[Bigboote]

And this one. I just love the lyrics.

 

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