Top 100

This is a pretty interesting Top 100 songs list.

Personally, I like the comments on the song at #5:

5. "Tear Stained Eye"--Son Volt: The finest country song of the last 25 years. And Nashville will never touch real country music like this again--it's making too much money off vacuous, reactionary "hat acts" with nothing to say and a bully pulpit for saying it. And you don't get to hear words like this: "Can you deny there's nothing greater/Nothing more than the traveling hands of time/St. Genevieve can hold back the water/But saints don't bother with a tear-stained eye."

That would not be in Callie's top five, or even in her favorites on one of my favorite all-time discs, but I love that song and I love that Trace disc.

And isn't that the truth about the Nashville Musical Shite factory? Will have to add this site to the blogroll after I complete the ongoing (and long promised, I know I know) redesign of this mess of a site.

[Posted at 16:20 CST on 06/14/03] [Link]