The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
Tom T. Hall
The debt paid in №1 currency · 2:45
country story-song, Olive Hill, debt and gratitude
Homecoming
Tom T. Hall
One half of a conversation · 3:18
front-porch country, unspoken father and son
A Week in a Country Jail
Tom T. Hall
Journalism from inside the cell · 3:03
talking-blues country, county jail, black-eyed peas
Ballad of Forty Dollars
Tom T. Hall
The ledger lands in the last line · 3:03
gravedigger's country waltz, ledger and Cadillacs
Salute to a Switchblade
Tom T. Hall
Two beers apiece und auf Wiedersehen · 3:26
honky-tonk Germany, phrasebook Deutsch, switchblade
Hello Vietnam
Johnnie Wright
The indictment sung as anthem · 3:08
Nashville send-off brass, 1965, sincere and damning
Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)
Drive-By Truckers
The boy wheeled back · 3:19
southern rock lament, bottle under the blanket
Strava
Kevin Mayfield
Orchestral requiem rock, Wagnerian fire · 5:30
Orchestral requiem rock, Wagnerian fire
The Pool Shark
Dave Dudley
The laryngitis rasp, imitated · 3:02
truckstop country, pool hall hustle, Newman substrate
(Margie's at) The Lincoln Park Inn
Bobby Bare
Adultery by logistics · 3:19
countrypolitan logistics, motel two blocks away
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Jeannie C. Riley
One hypocrite per couplet · 3:14
sass country, 1968, widow reading the minutes
Ein ehrenwertes Haus
Udo Jürgens
Harper Valley im Mietshaus · 3:29
Schlager indictment, Mietshaus stairwell, signatures
That's How I Got to Memphis
Tom T. Hall
Answers to an unvoiced interrogation · 3:02
question-form country ballad, Memphis by answers
That's How I Got to Memphis
Solomon Burke
The city claimed for its genre · 3:20
southern soul, Nashville sessions, the city reclaimed
Pamela Brown
Leo Kottke
Same words, opposite verdict · 4:05
twelve-string reverie, gratitude curdled to regret
Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)
Tom T. Hall
Pure materialism in a Stetson · 2:52
campfire cowboy philosophy, faster horses, older whiskey
一号を南へ (Take One South)
Natsuko Terada
Slap-bass country, autoharp, pedal steel · 3:20
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Fox on the Run
Tom T. Hall
British beat smuggled into Appalachia · 2:04
bluegrass conversion, banjo, La Toile in reverse
I Love
Tom T. Hall
The catalogue, 'and you' withheld · 2:09
children's catalogue country, small affections inventoried
Joe, Don't Let Your Music Kill You
Tom T. Hall
Clayton's warning, returned as self-address · 2:25
self-address country, the survivor's warning
You Should Take a Walk
Helle Raud
Slap-bass dark wave · 3:14
slap-bass dark wave, therabilly, doctor's orders
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
Tom T. Hall
The bartender's audit of existence · 4:10
barroom epiphany waltz, three things worth a dime
New Moon Over Jamaica
Johnny Cash, Tom T. Hall, Paul & Linda McCartney, June Carter
The summit on Cinnamon Hill · 3:12
porch summit, Jamaica, Cash and a Beatle