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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

.Al Stewart - Roads To Moscow .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8GnDsvDj9w
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks is my absolute favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJVclgwS5g
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Her First Mistake - Lyle Lovett
The Illinois Enema Bandit - Frank Zappa
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Stagger Lee - Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang
Soul Suckin Jerk - Beck
Big Trouble - David Lee Roth
Niggas Bleed - Notorious BIG
Charlie Freak - Steely Dan

probly lots, lots more.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Joan Baez - Prison Triology
Robert Johnson (and later Cream) - Crossroads
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPDr56_5l0
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Quote Originally Posted by dparr View Post
.Al Stewart - Roads To Moscow .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk
I was just going to post this; live take.

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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Joan Baez - Prison Triology
That reminds me of Diamonds and Rust

One of my all-time favorite story-telling songs. For that one song I became a Joan Baez fan for life.

Not only is it interesting to hear her tell this story of her relationship with Bob Dylan, but the poetic metaphors are superb, the guitar work is excellent and the melody is beautiful. And it reminds me of a relationship where I was like the Dylan character to this one woman who loved me. Of course, my relationship was not as noteworthy, and her response to me was much more blunt than ". . . and if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid". But many people I believe can relate to having been into those type of relationships where you're not "all in" and Joan describes beautifully what it feels like from the other side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJpEM3f-x4
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Dixie Chicken by Little Feat
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

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Taxi and A Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin
Pretty much anything by Harry, but yeah, these two are exceptional.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Top Ten Favorite Springsteen Story-Telling Songs:

10. The Line
9. Meeting Across the River
8. Lost in the Flood
7. Bobby Jean
6. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
4. Wreck on the Highway
3. Galveston Bay
2. Wild Billy's Circus Story
1. Outlaw Pete
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Top Ten Favorite Dylan Story-Telling Songs:

10. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
8. Motorpsycho Nightmare
7. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
6. Oxford Town
5. All Along the Watchtower
4. Joey
3. Only a Pawn in Their Game
2. Hurricane
1. Ballad of Hollis Brown
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Ray Stevens-this one's great, but there are many more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNmcB50NALQ
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

lou reed/VU - waiting for my man
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

not a song but an entire album: pink floyd - the wall
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Quote Originally Posted by GAS Man View Post
That reminds me of Diamonds and Rust

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But many people I believe can relate to having been into those type of relationships where you're not "all in" and Joan describes beautifully what it feels like from the other side.

that's what the storytelling songs are for..

your story reminded me "i walk the line" of johnny cash. don't we walk the line quite often..
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Centerfield by John Fogerty should have been mentioned.
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Maybelline by Chuck Berry
Atlantic City by Bruce
Anything by David Wilcox ( PLEASE check him up, very under-famous).
Pride ( In the Name of Love) by U2
The Weight by The Band
Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Blurry by Puddle if Mudd
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
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Re: What are your favorite story-telling songs?

Quote Originally Posted by JRicoC View Post
Top Ten Favorite Dylan Story-Telling Songs:

10. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
8. Motorpsycho Nightmare
7. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
6. Oxford Town
5. All Along the Watchtower
4. Joey
3. Only a Pawn in Their Game
2. Hurricane
1. Ballad of Hollis Brown
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