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Mary Chapin Carpenter: Thanksgiving Song [ purchase ] I know we don't usually submit new songs, but I hope everyone can forgive the exception - in April 2007, Mary Chapin Carpenter experienced a serious health scare, and I have no doubt this song , from last year's Come Darkness, Come Light ...
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World Party: Thank You World [ purchase ] I was a senior in college in 1990, and my (and the country's) environmental consciousness was at a pre-global warming high point. I was heavily involved in a student environmental group, and was well on my way to becoming a vegetarian. When Goodbye ...
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The Rolling Stones
Norman Blake : Uncle [ purchase ] Uncle tells the tale of a man who briefly but profoundly touched the life of the narrator. I don’t know the back story on this one, but this song feels autobiographical to me. In hard times, his uncle came to live with the family. He did amazing things that ...
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Maurice Chevalier: Thank Heaven For Little Girls [ purchase ] Of all the things I'm thankful for, my daughters top the list; in a rare display of personal sentiment, that's them pictured above, with their best friend Arwen on a cold Cape Cod beach this summer. This Maurice Chevalier ...
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Eliza Gilkyson: Prayer 2000 [ purchase ] Today's offering is a tip of the proverbial hat to Vesta_66, who chimed in last week with how much she (guessing on the gender) appreciates the "wisdom, maturity and respect" of the SMM contributors and commenters (as well as specifically likes the ...
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Johnny Dowd : Thanksgiving Day [ purchase ] "You don’t have to be a rock star to have fun, You don’t have to be a soldier to carry a gun, You don’t have to be a postman to mail a letter, Be content with your life - it may not get any better..." Says it all ...
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The Police : Don‘t Stand So Close To Me [ purchase ] Like Susan, I was taken aback when I saw our theme for this week. How did we get here so soon after Domestic Violence week? But, I didn’t have to deal with it right away. I had work to do for my own blog, that occupied most of the start ...
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Sting
Cry Cry Cry: I Know What Kind of Love This Is [ purchase ] I had originally been saving this song until the end of the week. But the diversity of posts so far - and the way in which each of us has come to the table using this week's theme to wrestle so well with a difficult issue - makes me ...
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Pee Shy: Little Dudes [ Purchase ] The strength of this blog is in the unique and varied perspectives it brings together through music. When we find out the theme each week, it is our own responsibility to interpret it the way we see fit, and different song choices show different sides to ...
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Jim Croce : Five Short Minutes [ purchase ] Steve Goodman : Death Of A Salesman [ purchase ] Here are two more musical examples that show what can happen to a guy who involves himself with under aged girls. And again, as in my previous post, neither of these condone, but rather they show ...
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Big Star: Thirteen [ purchase ] I have to admit that like Susan , I too was a bit surprised by this week's theme. It took me a while to figure out what direction to go in for my post, but I found the answer in this innocent love song... "Thirteen" is a sweet song of adolescent love from ...
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Collin Raye: I Think About You [ purchase ] I've been having a backchannel exchange with Boyhowdy since mid-day, and his as-always eloquent and informed responses gave me the courage to go public with my privately-expressed feelings – below is a copy-and-paste of my side of the dialogue: ...
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Andre Williams : Jail Bait [ purchase ] Seems hard to pin it down exactly but the term 'jailbait' seems to begin sometime in the 30's. The earliest song I know of that references jailbait is Jail Bait by Andre Williams. I'd be curious to know if there is an earlier recording that does so. ...
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Stevie Wonder
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson : Good Morning Little School Girl [ purchase ] This topic made me think of Chuck Berry, of course, but I thought I'd rather take you to where Chuck came from. Old blues songs were full of underage beauties, and among them, this classic recorded by John Lee ...
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The Rolling Stones: Stray Cat Blues [ purchase ] I'm not their biggest fan, but there's something about the slow, sultry strut and wail of this Beggar's Banquet b-side that crawls right under my skin. The way the guitars run from slow intro stretch to driving verse to slightly sped-up ...
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The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band : Crazy Little Thing [ purchase ] "If you're too young, girl, you know you're gonna be the ruin of me... They call her crazy, but I'm hot and she's cold, Crazy little thing, crazy little thing, how old, how ...
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Barenaked Ladies: Brian Wilson [ purchase ] From 1992's Gordon , Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies tells the story of a man whose life parallels that of Beach Boys member Brian Wilson , referencing his diagnosis of mental illness via the mention of psychologist Dr. Eugene Landy, as ...
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Barenaked Ladies
Joni Mitchell’s early career was marked by confessional songs about her relationships. It wasn’t hard to find out who each song was about, and people did. But, at that point, Mitchell never dropped a name in her songs. For this reason, these early songs possess a universal quality that makes ...
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Bob Dylan: Song to Woody [ purchase ] So here we have three songs written from an artist to one of his influences. Bob Dylan's "Song to Woody" is the most direct of the three: it's a love song to Woody and his songs. It was one of only two self-penned songs on Dylan's eponymous debut, and he ...
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David Bowie
Bob Dylan
They Might Be Giants: We're The Replacements [ purchase ] I mean, for months we were on the road behind 10,000 Maniacs. We were playing the same cities, and in a lot of cases, the same venues -- but just, like, a day before, or a day after. You just come to realize that...every hotel ...
