The song you just cant stop playing???

The new song Bob Dylan wrote for the movie "North Country" is an amazing country-folk ballad that has been stuck in my head since the day I first heard a few months ago. The song, "Tell Ol' Bill," is full of amazing, haunting imagery telling the tale of pain and the scarred resignation that comes with the acceptance of a failed relationship and lost dreams. It is sung from the woman's point of view and ends with:

Tell ol' Bill when he comes home
Anything is worth a try
Tell him that I'm not alone
That the hour has come to do or die.

All the world I would defy
Let me make it plain as day
I look at you now and I sigh
How could it be any other way?

This has to be one of the best written songs of 2005 and one of Dylan's 10 best ever...seriously.

A few from the top of my head...

Both sides now - Joni Mitchell
Concerto de Aranjuaz - John Williams (guitarist)
Girl from Ipanema - Getz/Gilbarto
Walk on by - Dionne Warwick

"Danny Boy" - Eva Cassidy. Simply touching.

Robert Wyatt singing Elvis Costello's "shipbuilding"...simply gorgeous!

"Imagine" - Eva Cassidy. Could listen to it all day long.

jppenn - anyone singing shipbuilding is good - love that song! Great choice!

"The Fire Inside" Bob Seger

Don't ask why, but I could burn a CD of it playing for an hour?!?

"Rocky Racoon"---I'm serious.

Papertrail,I think thats a GREAT tune!!! Good taste!

"Ring the Bells" by James, from their c.d. "Seven."

I love this song for it's music and lyrics. If I ever play it, I know it will be near my c.d. player for days.

Sample of lyrics...

When you let me fall
Grew my own wings
Now I'm as tall as the sky
When you let me drown
Grew gills and fins
Now I'm as deep as the sea
When you let me die my spirit's free
There's nothing challenging me.

Looking for my Rainbow... Canned Heat.

ain't no sunshine- sidney youngblood LP. I play it most money b4 I go to work. It makes me so charge up

lately, seem to be 'hooked' on "Redondo Beach" - Patti Smith and"Straight to Hell" -The Clash.

Pat Metheny's "The way up" all 68 minutes. IMHO-the best piece of Jazz I've heard.

"About Time" by Steve Winwood...for the 10 days or so this cd has gone from house to car to work and back again. Every song is a gem. Winwood is at peak on the Hammond B3. The guitarist really smokes, and the rhythm section gets into my bones.

o.k you'll laugh but Lionel Ritchie's "Just For You"

It's not my favorite song by any means, but lately I find myself listening to Livingston Taylor's "Our Turn To Dance" from "Ink" (a fine Chesky recording) over and over again. Maybe it's touching a chord like Albert Porter mentioned above -- our daughters are pretty much grown, one is about to get married, etc. But it's a fine song in its own right, and you'll enjoy it.
Happy Listening.

Deal , Jerry Garcia
Alan