Greatest storytelling songs

[mojobone]

Cat's In The Cradle was Harry Chapin, who also did (as previously mentioned) Taxi and Thirty Thousand Pounds-another great story song with a hilarious three-for-one "shaggy dog" ending. Gordon Lightfoot did Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. How 'bout a classic murder ballad like Knoxville Girl or Delia's Gone? And wow, Suz, four out of five of my faves in one post; are you single?

[byllsong]

Coward Of The County...Kenny RogersIn The Ghetto...ElvisCopacobana...Barry Manilow

[jsnow915]

hey what about "Billy Don't Be A Hero"?

[jsnow915]

"Indian Reservation"....Mark Lindsay

[cameron]

May 11, 2009, 1:06pm, davewalton wrote:How about "Taxi"... Harry Chapin. That one gets my vote too. "Well another man might have been angry,another man might have been hurt,but another man never would have let her go.I stuffed the bill in my shirt."GREAT stuff!Cam

[byllsong]

These songs that we've posted here......these are the songs we need to write.Billy

[jwebbinspired]

One of my favorite is "Ole Red" Blake Shelton. Great song.Andy

[jjktunes]

Johnny Cash-A Boy Named Sue, The Who-Tommy, John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane & Cherry Bomb, George Jones-He Stopped Loving Her Today, Queensryque- Operation Mind Crime- concept album

[ontariolightning]

May 14, 2009, 8:14am, byllsong wrote:These songs that we've posted here......these are the songs we need to write.BillyI have to disagree with you, if you write country story songs are the last ones you need to write, they're just not in demand like they used to be

[mojobone]

Chiseled In Stone, Vern Gosdin. I wonder if that'd get cut, today? Though Brad Paisley did a real nice cover of Vern's "Is It Raining At Your House".