Ryan Adams called and he wants his life story back.
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Ryan Adams called and he wants his life story back.
If you’d like some that will make you think or drive you crazy, check out Donald Fagan and Walter Becker of Steely Dan fame
We're 100% on the same page. The best Isbell show I ever saw was him playing at the amphitheater in Davenport a year or two before he got clean. He was pissed off and a little drunk, and there was an absolute fire that I've never seen in his post sobriety shows.
I'm really glad he got his **** together and found real, sustained success and popularity, but I don't like his music nearly as much.
I can both be thankful for Amanda and her violin playing but also miss Isbell digging in and making his guitar scream on Decoration Day with no violin solo.
Find the Drive-By Truckers "Live at the 40 Watt" DVD. He's absolutely shredding all over it.I can both be thankful for Amanda and her violin playing but also miss Isbell digging in and making his guitar scream on Decoration Day with no violin solo.
When I lived at Hyland and Lincoln Way in 2007-2008, our Friday afternoon pre-bar ritual was to put that on and crank it loud to enough to hear in Friley and drink heavily.
When Oswald shot Kennedy he was insane, yet we watch the replays again and again.
80% of the music I listen to is instrumental. Words ruin everything in music just like in life.
Same. When I'm ready for lyrics though there are several greats listed here. Haven't seen Woody Guthrie, Joe Strummer or even Neil Young yet though.
Cyhi the Prynce has written a ton of Kanye's stuff the past 10 years. His freestyle on LA Leakers last month is amazing
Walter Becker & Donald Fagen from Steely Dan. They wrote about drug busts, (Bring Back the Boston Rag) prostitution, (Pearl of the Quarter, Razor Boy), socioeconomic classes in "Showbiz Kids" and even pedophiles (Everyone's Gone to the Movies) and they did it poetically with class and style.
Razor Boy
I hear you are singing a song of the past
I see no tears
I know that you know it may be the last
For many years
You'd gamble or give anything
To be in with the better half
But how many friends must I have
To begin with to make you laugh
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And take your fancy things away
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day
You know that the coming is so close at hand
You feel all right
I guess only women in cages can stand
This kind of night
I guess only women in cages
Can play down
The things they lose
You think no tomorrow will come
When you lay down
You can't refuse
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And take your fancy things away
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day
Razor Boy
I hear you are singing a song of the past
I see no tears
I know that you know it may be the last
For many years
You'd gamble or give anything
To be in with the better half
But how many friends must I have
To begin with to make you laugh
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And take your fancy things away
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day
You know that the coming is so close at hand
You feel all right
I guess only women in cages can stand
This kind of night
I guess only women in cages
Can play down
The things they lose
You think no tomorrow will come
When you lay down
You can't refuse
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And take your fancy things away
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day
Yes indeedy, but the words to his powerful and all too timely "That's How Every Empire Falls" was written, I have just discovered, by a relatively unknown R.B. Morris.
A bitter wind blows through the country
A hard rain falls on the sea
If terror comes without a warning
There must be something we don't see
What fire begets this fire?
Like torches thrown into the straw
If no one asks, then no one answers
That's how every empire falls.
Pretty sure there aren't too many Regina Spektor fans out there, but her lyrics are great (and you have to be impressed by how she makes the music fit them).
LAUGHING WITH
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God
When it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from the party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane start to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God
When they see the one they love, hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they're mistaken
No one laughs at God
When the cops knock on their door and they say we got some bad news, sir
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine or fire or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious, ha ha
Ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
When they've lost all they've got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God, we're all laughing with God
LAUGHING WITH
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God
When it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from the party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane start to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God
When they see the one they love, hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they're mistaken
No one laughs at God
When the cops knock on their door and they say we got some bad news, sir
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine or fire or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious, ha ha
Ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
When they've lost all they've got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God, we're all laughing with God
Maybe he's been mentioned and I missed it, but how about Buddy Holly? The Beatles and Don McLean obviously thought he was important:
Well All Right
Well all right, so I'm being foolish
Well all right let people know
About the dreams and wishes you wish
In the night when lights are low
Well all right, well all right
We'll live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Well, all right, so I'm going steady
It's all right when people say
That those foolish kids can't be ready
For the love that comes their way
Well all right, well all right
We will live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Well all right, well all right
We'll live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime love will be all right
Well All Right
Well all right, so I'm being foolish
Well all right let people know
About the dreams and wishes you wish
In the night when lights are low
Well all right, well all right
We'll live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Well, all right, so I'm going steady
It's all right when people say
That those foolish kids can't be ready
For the love that comes their way
Well all right, well all right
We will live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Well all right, well all right
We'll live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime love will be all right
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Prince, Van Morrison, John Prine, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, Paul Simon
Today's Artists:
Kasey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers, Leon Bridges, Pharrell, Kendrick Lamar, The Haim sisters, Morrissey and Dylan Frost
Best Lyrics of any song out right now, can tell Kasey was influenced by John Prine's comedic delivery but deep topics:
Dylan Frost (sticky fingers) Songs:
Cyclone:
Liquorlip Loaded Gun
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