from the album Looking Out The Window

YouTube video by Valerie N Blackwell

The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.

"Hashtag" is the second track from WOODLAND, the new album from Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, coming August 23rd. https://gillianwelch-davidrawlings.lnk.to/Woodland Connect: http://www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com http://www.facebook.com/gillianwelch http://www.facebook.com/davidrawlingsmusic http://twitter.com/gillianwelch http://twitter.com/thedaverawlings http://instagram.com/gillianwelchoffical http://instagram.com/davidrawlingsmusic “Hashtag” written by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings recorded at Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, TN Video: Steve Cross Additional Editing: Otis Burnstein

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Everybody loves a list, except perhaps the person whose job is to write it in the first place. Picking the top 10 songs in a genre that is known for the quality of its songwriting is a monumental task, particularly if you let the sense of history and sheer volume of great songs by exceptional songwriters get to you,  so I’ve decided to side-step such an objective approach and rely on my own subjectivity, informed by my experience, preferences, and prejudices with only a soupçon of critical objectivity.

YouTube video by Guy Clark - Topic

Guy Clark · Song · 1992

YouTube video by herve oudet

From the Heartworn Highways DVD extras