Storyline Music ..ok ballads

[bayoubill]

one of my all-time favorite Randy Newman tunes...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NLlkFel4M]Randy Newman - Birmingham - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

'nother favorite Randy Newman tune...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsccG8OYKnk]Randy Newman - Marie - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

and another...

one of my on-again-off-again theme songs for nearly the last forty years...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxYTILdWRaU]Randy Newman - Guilty - YouTube[/ame]


eta: my first wife thought it was charming...

my current (albeit estranged) wife...? nfw...

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVdp1KJiqM]jean ritchie sings blackwaters - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dluUNy6-kJk]Orphan Train - Autoharp - Utah Phillips - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmNjjiKsHAM]U. Utah Phillips - Miner's Lullaby - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOIr9wYShDo]Cover of "Starlight on the Rails" by Utah Phillips - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeiXnyvo0d4]Doc Watson House Of The Rising Sun - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

dunno if I've already posted this in this thread, but it belongs...

a traditional Cajun lament...

about walking past the house of one's lover who's just-recently passed away...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgly1vsE7vM]Jai Passe Devant Ta Porte (Dennis & Jennifer Stroughmatt) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Desperado]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qYU9b5OF8M]Harry Chapin - Taxi - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Desperado]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHWmxCoTV3Y]Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner - YouTube[/ame]

 

[konradv]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4]Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard...Pancho and Lefty - YouTube[/ame]

Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard- Pancho & Lefty

 

[konradv]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0NKWpRO6g]Steve Miller Band - Take The Money & Run - YouTube[/ame]

Steve Miller Band- Take The Money & Run

 

[konradv]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9Qa7MpAvw]Tracy Chapman - Fast Car - YouTube[/ame]

Tracy Chapman- Fast Car

 

[testarosa]

Arg... Brandi

Looking glass - Brandi you're a fine girl - YouTube

IOU a rep.

Love that song.

I'm going to raise you one of these.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDKNLFqQi4]Benny Mardones - Into The Night (original version) - [STEREO] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[testarosa]

Not a song. But one of my favorites that makes me cry every time.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVr_CGzTUcs]The Star Spangled Banner Story - YouTube[/ame]