Descripción: Like her song Crossmaker, Judee sill was a woman who knew about playing out unhealthy and damaging scripts. In this song, my favorite of hers and easily one of my all time favorite songs ever, Judee sings about inability to resist what we know is bad for us, about going into it with the knowledge that we'll be left empty and hurt at the end and playing it out anyway. Judee's life was very much ...

Descripción: Nina Simone doing a very lovely cover of the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun. The piano lends a carefree, uplifting tone to the song, and is probably my favorite version. Photos in the video are a collection of album covers and stock photography. No copyright infringement intended.

Descripción: Harry Chapin singing A Better Place to Be from Greatest Stories Live. The video transitions are a little slow due to the length of the song, and begins with a black screen for about the first minute, while Harry does his live bit about writing the song before the pics begin. The music speaks for itself. Amazing. Photos are stock images from various places around the net. No copyright infringe...

Descripción: The brass and organ riffs in this song break my heart in pieces, and put it back together again every chorus. Listening to this song feels like being in love feels to me, earnest and hopeful and sad all at the same time. Curtis's music is like that, is open and vulnerable in ways that really reasonate with me. I think this is one of his best.

Descripción: Recorded in 1971, this track is off Bonnie's first LP, self titled Bonnie Raitt, when she was only 21. Far from her 80s & 90s pop-country hits, this song gets under your skin like good blues should, and feels easy to me, like a Saturday afternoon or the way you feel sated and full up after a good meal in the company of someone you love. This will always be my Bonnie Raitt. If you haven't taken...

Descripción: Brotherhood of Man and The New Seekers are among a handful of 70s pop-folk artists who were very effective in utilizing full choral harmonies in their sound to evoke the sense of togetherness and oneness characteristic of the era. This is United We Stand by Euro-pop group Brotherhood of Man, who ran the top of the British pop charts several times from 1970 to 1976, but only achieved American radi...

Descripción: This is the very beautiful studio version of the Dixie Chicks performing the National Anthem. They originally performed live at the opening of the Super Bowl in 2003. There are several clips of them doing it live at the game available, but I wanted to post a clean studio (acapella) version that brings out the harmonies (which get lost amid the crowd cheering in the live clips). This is the firs...