Historical songs

[Spidey2112]

What historical event was that about?

Not an actual event, per se...

... as we look back at the history of mankind, we see much evidence of the human race not knowing the difference between what was right, and what was wrong...

... I seriously doubt the future us will see much difference, looking back at us...

... historical songs, not songs about historical events.

 

[Spectre Gunner]

Steely Dan's "The Last Mall" and "Everything Must Go". They are history in the making and relate to the closing of so many Brick-and-Mortar stores and Shopping Malls. Mainly, due to the transition of online shopping. They must have been ahead of their time since the album was released in 2003 and that's about the time when all this economic sea-change started happening.

 

[LordRyan]

A 1903 Virginia train wreck. When I was a kid we inherited a Victrola phonograph that had this record with it. I would listen to it over and over.



The building of the Canadian transcontinental railroad.



The JFK assassination.



Monterey Pop Festival.

 

[Michedelic]

Not a specific event, but an ongoing nightmare reality...
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"There was a rumor, about a tumor..."

 

[Michedelic]

Not an actual event, per se...

... as we look back at the history of mankind, we see much evidence of the human race not knowing the difference between what was right, and what was wrong...

... I seriously doubt the future us will see much difference, looking back at us...

... historical songs, not songs about historical events.

Still not 'historical', merely conjecture, interpretation, allegory, philosophical perhaps.

 

[Jokei]

 

[salsaslas]

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Thank you much for the Joan Baez video. Now I need to was my ears out with soap.....

 

[fhm555]

Tony Rice and Friends doing Whitehouse Blues. It’s about the assassination of William McKinley



Peter Rowan doing Ruby Ridge. It’s about Randy Weaver and his family



George Davis doing Death of the Blue Eagle. It’s about the short lived National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, but declared unconstitutional by the supreme court in 1935. It was popular with some but loathed by others. Miners didn’t care much for it as it pretty much gutted their newly formed UMW of A. The Blue Eagle reference was a popular term for the federal government at the time.



When i was a kid, bed time was 9pm. Not long after, my dad would play records and learn the songs on his guitar. He was a big fan of the guitar playing on Marty Robbins songs so he played those a lot. Many nights i drifted of to sleep to the sounds of Mr. Shorty, Big Iron, and this song.
Marty Robbins doing The Ballad if the Alamo

 

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (album) - Wikipedia

 

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Reminds me to go and listen to this album again (it's the only Lakeman one I have after all).

 

[Marc valero]

I like Gene Cotton's
"Like a Sunday on Salem" The Amos an Andy song. It is about the early 1950s when people were accused of being communists (it was a witch hunt like a Sunday in Salem) good tune with good bass line.

 

[Russell L]

John Wesley Hardin. -Bob Dylan

 

[CatchaCuda]

About the Sunset Strip curfew riots. Something about this song can give me chills. Makes me feel like part of something I missed by decades.

Some of the younger users may not realize that Neil Young of this band went on to write "Ohio" (see post #11 by ahc)

 

[Jeff Scott]

 

[Jeff Scott]

 

[5StringBlues]

 

[5StringBlues]

How about historical songs about subjects that are yet to come?

 

[5StringBlues]