Ten Big Ones

My ten favorite songs.

This is an important list, and let's define the terms here. We're talking about the best songs, not the best records or performances. Otherwise, you know ... Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder would win everything.

We're talking songs. Songs, that even when you just read them on the page, hear them as instrumentals, the thought of them inspires the awe that is incumbent when one is in the presence of great art. You get it!

So let's begin.

Let's knock out an easy one to start with [these are in no particular order]:

Desperados Waiting For A Train by Guy Clark [1975]

Papa Was A Rolling Stone by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong [1971]

Red Vines by Aimee Mann [2000]

Nighttime by Alex Chilton [1974]

Wichita Lineman by Jimmy Webb [1968]

Hidden Love by Peter Case [1989]

First Steps by Tommy Stinson [1993]

Jokerman by Bob Dylan [1983]

Revelator by Gillian Welch [2001]

Don't It Make You Want To Go Home by Joe South [1968]