Members GomezAddams1 Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Battle of New OrleansSeriously, the first things to come to my mind were already mentionedWreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (cliche, but it gives me chills every time I hear it)John Prine (anything off his first album, but particularly Sam Stone)Skynyrd Ballad of Curtis Lowe (I'd add Tuesday's Gone as well).I can't believe it took so long for someone to mention John Prine.I'll also throw in John Hartford's First Girl I Loved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue" and "25 Minutes to Go" are awesome. The Decemberists, one of my favorite bands, write nearly all their songs this way. They are known for their intriguing characters. The Hazards of Love was an album-length story and very good, though there are awesome stories on each record. "The Mariner's Revenge Song" is popular and one of the most fun in concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members harold heckuba Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 I Like Beer- by Tom T Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members harold heckuba Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjWV2lqlqQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members harold heckuba Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 ^^^^ The REK song also has some of the best country guitar playing I have ever heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members killthehippies45 Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Amon Amarth reminded me of this for some weird reason... been lonesome two years since she disappeared. i'm at the park where she was last seen. a vast green clearing wrapped up in maple trees, spilling the morning rain from their leaves. i used to walk here with a girl seventeen. at the time mistress of seventeen smiles sublime with flaming locks of red in the autumn and burning locks of orange in the summertime. we were solemn and awkward that last night together. she laid by my side, staring into starless skies, black as angel feathers. i stared into the forest pretending not to see the hangmen she was hiding in her eyes of serpent green. she said that there was another, i refused to believe her. i'd thought we'd kiss until our tongues tied together.all my loving memories became scenes of frenzied slaughter.my hands became cruel talons as they moved to destroy her.her neck breaks like a toy in a careless child's grip. my tears rained down into dead eyes and splashed upon her lifeless lips. i put her in the ground like a flower.i am standing in that same spot today where my angel's empty shell last laid. and as my tears began to well up once more, i see a path into the tree line that i'd never seen before. i follow it down into a ravine, find a hole in the earth framed in the roots of a birch tree. subtle echoes of her voice speaking words i've never heard. but the way she hissed her "s"'s, i knew it had to be her. i smell honeysuckle, then opium. two of her signature scents. i pull aside all the thistle and mesmerized, i make my descent. as i crawl further inside, the light slowly dies and the dirt begins to feel like her skin. i tremble as i drag my fingers down the walls, caressing her sweet flesh again.i'm slipping downwards, trying so hard not to fall. slipping on the blood that's seeping from the walls. suddenly i'm surrounded by a thousand of her eyes, bathing the tunnel in a strange green light. the eyes show me pictures, like ghostly television screens. all her thrashing final struggles and her ravaged corpse, serene.the tunnel is closing behind me. pressing me further and further down. i'm being swallowed by her earth and consumed by her ground. the end is moving into sight. i gasp and i scream as i see her lovely mouth, five times the size of me. her lips curl into a grin around her crooked gnashing teeth. i'm pulverized and devoured in the jaws of a girl seventeen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members dparr Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 .Al Stewart - Roads To Moscow . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members moon shadow Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks is my absolute favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BuckshotJenkins Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren ZevonHer First Mistake - Lyle LovettThe Illinois Enema Bandit - Frank ZappaThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon LightfootFather and Son - Cat StevensStagger Lee - Chris Whitley & Jeff LangSoul Suckin Jerk - BeckBig Trouble - David Lee RothNiggas Bleed - Notorious BIGCharlie Freak - Steely Danprobly lots, lots more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members beter pan Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Joan Baez - Prison TriologyRobert Johnson (and later Cream) - Crossroads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toopicky Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bad Robot Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by dparr .Al Stewart - Roads To Moscow . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk I was just going to post this; live take. General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8bjsgmKwE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by beter pan 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gjh73 Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Dixie Chicken by Little Feat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike003 Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by bee3 Taxi and A Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin Pretty much anything by Harry, but yeah, these two are exceptional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRicoC Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRicoC Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Top Ten Favorite Dylan Story-Telling Songs:10. Tangled Up in Blue9. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts8. Motorpsycho Nightmare7. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll6. Oxford Town5. All Along the Watchtower4. Joey3. Only a Pawn in Their Game2. Hurricane1. Ballad of Hollis Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larryguitar Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Ray Stevens-this one's great, but there are many more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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