Andrew Bird
A nonsense-song portrait of an eccentric woman announced like an approaching storm, built on absurd culinary combinations and…
eccentricity folk-tale repetition food as character
Sandy Denny
A brief, loosely sketched vignette about a woman who sleeps late and drifts through her days, addressed by a narrator who can't…
idleness and withdrawal ambiguous judgment vs. affection female eccentricity
De La Soul
De La Soul use a mirror-gazing conceit to push back against critics and industry types who wanted to pigeonhole them as hippies…
individuality vs. conformity authenticity in art resistance to stereotyping
The Band
A traveler arrives in a town called Nazareth looking for simple lodging and instead gets tangled in a chain of odd requests and…
burden and obligation hospitality and its refusal community entanglement