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Meowy
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What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Not the usual verse chorus verse, rinse and repeat... A few of mine:

Powderfinger
A day in the life

These have a bit more pop structure but still tell a story...
Rosalita (even tho I'm not a Bruce fan, great song)
American pie

Alice's Restaurant is strictly forbidden since thanksgiving has already past

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Far Behind

The Trees
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Examples but not necessarily favourites:

Love Chronicles - Al "Schoolboy" Stewart featuring J Page on tasteful fills and accents. A tale of English Public Schoolboy morphs into adulthood, assisted by a stream of young women.

Almost any rock theatre epic from Meatloaf.

Blood - the Middle East. Not political but the story of love and loss in an Australian family.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash is a classic. Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller is a good one too.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Whiskey in a Jar - Thin Lizzy is definitely a fav
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Townes-Pancho & Lefty
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Shooting Star by Bad Company
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Operation Mindcrime - the entire album beginning to end.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Shit, I got a lot of these:

Rush (congrats on finally making the RRHOF, guys!): "Red Barchetta"
Seger: "Night Moves"
Dylan: "The Hurricane"
Steely Dan: "Deacon Blues", "Kid Charlemagne", "The Royal Scam", "Charlie Freak", "My Old School" and all kinda more
Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece at a Time"
Springsteen has a thousand story songs: "The River", "Jungle Land", "STolen Car", "Born to Run", "Rosalita" ..... basically anything he did from 1972-1985
Beatles: "Ballad of John and Yoko" and "Rocky Racoon"
Bad Co: "Shooting Star"
Willie Nelson: "Ballad of Pancho and Lefty"
Jim Croce had a bunch, but my favorite was always "Don't Mess Around with Jim"
Rod Stewart: "Every Picture Tells a Story Don't It"
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

this one probably, or nearly anything from the BLOOD album.

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Hot Rod Lincoln

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Taxi and A Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Idk how I forgot pink Floyd pigs, sheep and dogs

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Ballad of Curtis Lowe.


Any song ever written by Paul Simon.

Most songs written/performed by Jerry Reed.
Most songs written/performed by Johnny Cash.

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