Mississippi John Hurt
A homesick blues built around the tiny Mississippi hamlet of Avalon, where the singer measures the alienation of the big city…
homesickness rural vs urban life romantic longing
Richard Thompson
This is Richard Thompson's arrangement of the traditional American folk/sea shanty "Shenandoah," recorded for his "1000 Years of…
longing and distance migration and westward movement love across separation
Howlin’ Wolf
This is one of the foundational texts of Chicago blues: a hypnotic, one-chord vamp built around the image of a train's…
migration and trains as symbol unrequited or faithless love isolation and being unheard
Fairport Convention
A meditation on mortality and constancy, written by Sandy Denny and here performed by Fairport Convention (who backed her on the…
mortality and impermanence the passage of time constancy in love