Some classics and some oddities here; #8 was a big hit when I was in sixth grade. While other kids were listening to KISS, I was into Helen Reddy. (This made me an understandable target for ridicule.) #3 is a great cover of the old Stephen Foster classic, Mare Winningham is a wonderful actress turned Jewish convert and folk singer, and #7 is my second favorite version of this oft-covered Haggard staple. (I like the Gram Parsons take even better.) And #10 is off everyone’s favorite Joni Mitchell album.
1. “Rocket Queen”, Guns n’ Roses
2. “Angel from Montgomery”, John Prine
3. “Hard Times”, Eastmountainsouth
4. “Bittersweet”, Big Head Todd and the Monsters
5. “The World to Come”, Mare Winningham
6. “To Love Somebody”, the Flying Burrito Brothers
7. “Sing me Back Home”, David Allen Coe & Merle Haggard
8. “Keep On Singing”, Helen Reddy
9. “Martyrs and Thieves”, Jennifer Knapp
10. “Carey”, Joni Mitchell
Bonus Track: “The Ghosts of Cable Street”, The Men they Couldn’t Hang
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