Vashti Bunyan
A short pastoral hymn that treats an ordinary rural day as something precious, using the smallest units of farm life to build…
rural simplicity contentment cyclical time
Emmylou Harris
A narrator looks back at a childhood friend, Lillian, whose life in a small Southern town never escapes the gravity of that…
rural poverty and stasis female friendship the cost of unfulfilled ambition
Randy Newman
Written for the animated film 'Toy Story,' this is a plain-spoken pledge of loyalty from one companion to another, stripped of…
loyalty reassurance humility versus devotion