
Another 50 best songs
1 January 2009A little while ago my brother Dan posted his list of his 50 favourite songs of all time. Last week I posted my list.
Our dad heard about our list-making and the gauntlet was thrown. He stayed up nights thinking about what his top 50 songs would be. Here they are.
- Band . “The Weight”
- Barra Macneils . “Cool Town Road”
- Big Sugar . “Wild Ox Moan”
- Bill Bourne . “Bluebird”
- Bill Justis . “Raunchy”
- Bob Dylan . “Desolation Row”
- Bob Dylan . “High Water”
- Bob Dylan . “Highlands”
- Bobbie Gentry . “Ode to Billy Joe”
- Browns . “The Thee Bells”
- Buddy Knox . “Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep”
- Carole King . “Smackwater Jack”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival . “Feeling Blue”
- Crosby Stills Nash and Young . “Teach Your Children”
- Dire Straits . “Walk of Life”
- Doc Watson . “Tennessee Stud”
- Doors . “Riders on the Storm”
- Eagles . “Heartache Tonight”
- Eagles . “Witchy Woman”
- Elvis Presley . “That’s All Right”
- Emmylou Harris . “Calling My Children Home”
- George Thorogood . “Bad to the Bone”
- Gillian Welch . “By the Mark”
- Gillian Welch . “Elvis Presley Blues”
- Gillian Welch . “Red Clay Halo”
- Gordon Lightfoot . “Sundown”
- Ian & Sylvia . “Old Blue”
- Jeff Buckley . “Hallelujah”
- Jennifer Warnes . “Ballad of the Runaway Horse”
- Jennifer Warnes . “Bird on a Wire”
- Jennifer Warnes . “Joan of Arc”
- Jimie Rodgers . “Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)”
- Joan Baez . “Farewell Angelina”
- Johnny Cash . “I Walk the Line”
- Johnny Cash . “Tennessee Flat Top Box”
- Kingston Trio . “Patriot Game”
- Levon Helm . “When I Get My Rewards”
- Natalie Merchant . “Diver Boy”
- Norman Greenbaum . “Spirit in the Sky”
- Rita MacNeil . “Working Man”
- Robert Johnson . “Crossroad Blues”
- Roy Orbison . “Candy Man”
- Roy Orbison . “Dream Baby”
- Stan Rogers . “Giant”
- Stan Rogers . “Make and Break Harbour”
- Stevie Ray Vaughan . “Crossfire”
- Tennessee Ernie Ford . “Sixteen Tons”
- Tracy Chapman . “Give Me One Reason”
- Wilson Pickett . “Mustang Sally”
- Woody Guthrie . “Vigilante Man”
Dan made some comparisons on his blog.
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