Bootleg Rye #2

As per previous post, Bootleg Rye #1, I've been sharing songs and thoughts about songwriting with the Corktown Ukulele Jam.

My initial, almost-but-not-quite random playlist was way too big for one listen, so I carved it in two.

Even combined they don't represent more than a taste of a dip into a foray into a notion of an idea of the beginning of the edge of the margins of the faintest wisp of the world of songwriting... but these are damn good songs!

TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, WRITER

1. Ain't a Woman Somebody When She's Gone- Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Lonely Street (Buddy Cannon, Tommy Collins)
2. Beautiful - Lori Cullen, Buttercup Bugle (Gordon Lightfoot)
3. Crazy - Patsy Cline, 12 Greatest Hits (Willie Nelson)
4. Four Letter Word (For Lonesome) - Laura Smith, b'tween the earth and my soul (W. Hillier and Laura Smith)
5. I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce, Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits (Jim Croce)
6. In the Jailhouse Now, #1 - Steve Forbert, Young Guitar Days (Jimmie Rodgers)
7. Killing the Blues - Allison Kraus &Robert Plant, Raising Sand (Rowland Salley)
8. The Lovers Are Here And They're Full of Sweat - Jonathan Richman, Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild (Jonathan Richman)
9. None of Us are Free - Solomon Burke & The Blind Boys of Alabama, Don't Give Up On Me (Barry Mann, Brenda Russell; Cynthia Weil)
10. Old Pigweed - Mark Knopfler, The Ragpicker's Dream (Mark Knopfler)
11. The Roses on Annie's Table - Bob Bossin, The Roses on Annie's Table (Bob Bossin)
12. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) - k.d. lang & Tony Bennet, A Wonderful World (Harry Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie)
13. Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen, Live in London (Leonard Cohen)
14. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye, What's Going On (Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson)
15. Where the Blue of the Night - John Prine & Mac Wiseman, Standard Songs for Average People (Bing Crosby, Fred E. Alhert, Roy Turk)
    

Bear with me - I'll be adding links and annotation to help people do the research on what makes these tunes special to my ears. And there will be more... the tower of song is of infinite height, and its foundations, of infinite depth.

Listen!