Folksy story-telling songs that have a certain eeriness to them

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:36 am

Stuff like 'Cats in the Cradle', for example...

Hit me up!

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:43 am

I find "Cats in the Cradle" eerie for personal reasons. Now that my dad's dead I'm not sure I could even stand listening to that song. "American Pie" is a song that always has an effect on me but that may be because I recognize the greatness of Waylon Jennings and he was supposed to have been on the plane the day the music died instead of J.P. Richardson.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:06 am

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GMUlCBgd0[/youtube]

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:08 am

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=rDHpkYI5_FY[/youtube]

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:10 am

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8[/youtube]

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:12 am

Linking Reba McEntire = you win.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:19 am

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=HdP3nZMZQbs[/youtube]

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:21 am

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:22 am

@Cash I find 'Cats in the Cradle' eerie for personal reasons as well. My biological father was absentee for most of my life. Some of it wasn't his fault, but he could have done more to be present. When I first visited him as a young adult, the similarities of habit and personality I noticed between us were almost disturbing. I was eerily similar to a man I knew nothing about. Now, the irony is that I'm the one who doesn't call or visit as much as I probably should, even though he reaches out.

@Bruce That's what I'm talking about. Though the music video for "the lights in Georgia" song sucks. All the talking over it ruins it.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:28 am

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:29 am

You have to take this one in context. Jimmy Buffet wrote it during the Vietnam War while referencing World War II. He was trying to make a commentary on war without being seen as an "anti-American war protester" like many of his contemporaries. Waylon covering this song helped Buffet make the transition to being a semi-country artist.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:31 am

Goddamnit Bruce! I was just about to link Seven Spanish Angels next. I went from liking you to hating you in the span of a few posts. Ray Charles still doesn't get the recognition he deserves for his contributions to country music.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:35 am

Lol! I immediately thought of it after Pancho and Lefty.

Sorry about the Reba video, Castor. Here it is with just the lyrics.

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpkE5Ee3AOo[/youtube]

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:48 am

Damn, I missed that you linked Pancho and Lefty. That's two of the first three songs I was going to link that you stole. If you get the my fourth one before I do then you're dead to me. Townes van Zandt was an amazing songwriter but one of the most tortured souls I've ever met, born to wealth and went through all the money he inherited and all he earned on pills and heroin.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:53 am

If anybody says Janis Joplin did it better I'm loading one of my safari rifles.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:18 am

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUrjGYU8UrQ[/youtube]

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:48 pm

Bruce is a parrothead.

BruceSmith78 · Post by **BruceSmith78** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:19 pm

Not really. Back in the '90's a friend left his Jimmy Buffett cassette tape at my apartment, I think it was a greatest hits tape, and the only two songs I'd listen to were In the Shelter and Margaritaville. It had a more haunting recording of In the Shelter that I couldn't find on youtube.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:36 pm

That's a relief.

The two you named plus He Went to Paris are the only songs of his worth listening to and his own version of HWTP pales in comparison to that of Jesus which I posted.

Gypsy-Vanner · Post by **Gypsy-Vanner** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:55 pm

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot <man oh man, definitely one of my most favorite sad songs.

Methamphetamine - Old Crow Medicine Show < this one is nuts. It's a great tune but when you listen to the actual subject material it's like wtf?

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:39 pm

I'll have to look some of these up.

Does this count?

The kind of subtle, wind-whistling effect in the background makes it so much more chilling.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:41 pm

BruceSmith78 wrote:Lol! I immediately thought of it after Pancho and Lefty.

Sorry about the Reba video, Castor. Here it is with just the lyrics.

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpkE5Ee3AOo[/youtube]

You're forgiven.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:03 pm

The instrumentals from the Edmund Fitzgerald song made me think of Seal's 'Kiss from a Rose'.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:53 pm

This song needs a full version:

Blade Azaezel · Post by **Blade Azaezel** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:46 pm

Does this count?

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:56 pm

Nope.

Blade Azaezel · Post by **Blade Azaezel** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:02 pm

Eh. Then Crossroad Blues by Robert Johnson, or Hellhound on my Trail, or whatever it's called. I'd put the links up but I'm on my phone.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:20 pm

You have 24 hours.

Blade Azaezel · Post by **Blade Azaezel** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:35 am

Cassius Clay wrote:You have 24 hours.

I post on my own terms.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 2:54 pm

You have 5 hours.

Blade Azaezel · Post by **Blade Azaezel** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 3:47 pm

You mother bitch, stop threatening my children!

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:27 pm

I can't see the videos 'cause I'm on my phone. So, I'm just going to assume they don't count.

....You have 3 hours.

Cassius Clay · Post by **Cassius Clay** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:40 pm

Blade Azaezel wrote:You mother bitch, stop threatening my children!

Not exactly what I was looking for, but I like it. Your life will be spared.

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