Music Groupsourcing Request

If the 21st century hadn’t been kiboshed this would be my Tom T Hall pick.

 

And one more ...

 

Elaine Benes wants to know why it can’t be Witchy Woman.

 

Throw the hippies a bone and play some Willie Nelson (Whiskey River or Uncloudy Day) or Asleep at the Wheel (House of Blue Lights).

 

Great to see a Joe Ely mention here, one of my fave artists, so many incredible songs. "She Never Spoke Spanish to Me" is a great weeper.

Steve Goodman - "City of New Orleans"

Guy Clark - "Desperadoes Waiting for the Train"

 

I was raised by old hippies, and my big-city dad went through a phase where he wanted to be a farmer. But my folk ain't country. Or western. (I've got a ton of Harry Chapin, Pete Seeger, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary... and for some reason iTunes labeled Jason Isbell as "folk" too.)

Got anything from The Highwaymen on the playlist yet? My collection also includes plenty of Alabama, Reba, Randy Travis and Martina McBride that's from before the turn of the century. Is that too popular for the year-round Vineyard crowd?

 

I like "Dallas" a lot, and Joe Ely probably does it best, but the first time I saw it in a clip it was covered in a duet by David Byrne and Natalie Merchant, of all people, from a session on "Austin City Limits," I think. They really did it well, too, but dang it someone (maybe Byrne?) got it pulled off YouTube. What a tragic loss of an epic collaboration.

Reminds me of some great live clips of a Don Henley show at Red Rocks, and though I love Henley's work, all of it, he's a miserable prick who never realized that YouTube clips attract old fans and new fans, too, and thus grow his audience.

And, finally, since Junior Brown and Dallas both made it to this thread, this is a nicely done country trucker song, too ...

 

Another of the great train songs, which could be and oughta be a thread of its own ...

Never heard of such guys as Billy Joe Shaver, Chris Smither
and Dale Watson until recently. Some great country-ass stuff there.

 

Grateful Dead -- Me and My Uncle