First Music Thread of the Off Season

[Ozimoto]

So, someone had to do it.

Post songs that tell a story. I will start off with this one from Bobby Gentry.



So, what was Billy Joe and the girl throwing off the bridge?

 

[fireford]

This is a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue

 

[bob15]

Harry......

 

[visitingcock]

'CauseCurtis Lowe was the finest Picker to ever play the blues

 

[Huskee11]

Virgil Kane is the name and I served on the Danville train…….

 

[meyers7]

Finally, geez. I didn't want to be the first because I know many people hate these threads. (and I want to be loved, so badly)

About a little dirt farm girl and her chance to get away

Price To Pay - Blues Traveler

 

[Monte]

 

[ClifSpliffy]

a story aboot a guy who wants sum cash to buy sumthin lots of folks want where i live. smart people. real life story.


and speaking of cash, warren b, and todays news, well ol warren b. just bought a pantload of hp.
signed, buyer of exclusively msft and hp stuff when it comes to, well, pert near everrthing tech, since day aleph. i like that my stuff runs seamlessly. hey warren, what took u so long? and stop stealing my ideas!

 

[meyers7]

Almost a true story. (close anyway)

The Death of Johnny Mooring - Enter the Haggis

 

[meyers7]

A different take on a classic tale.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Headstones

 

[ClifSpliffy]

only 2 months or so til the honeysuckle starts blowing up. magic.
i live in a little big town. literally. actually, much of Connecticut is a little big town. the census folks have a new term for it. sumthin aboot folks who have bears, chickens, squash, and such runnin around in the back yard, and sushi and saks fifth in the front yard. Connecticut is numero uno on that metric.

 

[meyers7]

A very short breakup story (7 minutes) that takes awhile to tell.

2:22 - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (with some help from Warren Haynes)

 

[cullaville]

This is a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue

Miles Davis quote about Steve Miller...........................

“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-axx cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his sXXt going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfxxxxker just because he had one or two sorry-axx records out.

 

[Aluminny69]

An appropriate song for opening day of Baseball.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

come and listen to my story aboot a man named jed..


jed and oliver wendell douglass. my heros among real people. snoopy don't make it cuz even a dope like me knows he ain't real. or is he?

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Aluminny69]

Based on a true story, and an old folk song, this version was Number one in the Late Fifties:

 

[Kaizen]

McClean says the song and chorus are all about America at the time he wrote it.

“I saw the implication of America going bye-bye since by 1971 we were a horribly divided country with tremendous anger being directed at the government over the Vietnam War.”

 

[Centerstream]

Probably my all time favorite song

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Sifaka]

It was fun over half a century ago when I first heard it.

Still is.

 

[Kaizen]