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#265-The Troubadour (2002)
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Finger picking traditonally structured tribute song to the great Greenwich Village songwriters of the 60's and later
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #141
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
February 22, 2010
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MP3 2.5 MB 149 kbps 2:22
Story behind the song
Jack Hardy has held a weekly songwriting circle through the 80's and 90's in which people such as John Gorka, Suzanne Vega and others learned their chops. Of course that neighborhood was also the breeding ground of the great one a generation before, notably Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and others. I have a number of "tribute" songs in my hallowed canon, to songwriters such as George Harrison, John Lennon and Stan Rogers. This is to a whole group of singer songwriters that continue to inspire. While I like their music I am usually not very good at emulating their song craft. I do not have the focus to stay in one genre very long. The picture is of one of my favorites, Jack Hardy, a songwriters' songwriter who as far as I know still lives in Greenwich Village.
Lyrics
I went out walking down MacDougal street Cliches in my head but hope at my feet I thought I heard behind the door the fading sound of the Troubadour It wasn’t Bobby though we was there It wasn’t Van Rock or Hester flowing hair It was a voice so clear and proud It was the sound of the Troubadour In 1962 Everything there was so new But now they say its quite passe And the gauntlet’s long gone past Still the great songs they will last To live another day No it wasn’t Paxton, nor Joan Baez Nor Richard Farina he’d sure make you guess It might have been Phil if he was around Or Bob Gibson if he was in town I know on Houston The tradition still lives on Songwriters living just for the song Thought I heard Jack’s Crows right behind the door Thought I heard the sound of the Troubadour I know that’s Jack’s Crows right behind the door I know the sound of the Troubadour The greasy cafes were opened up falafel cheaply and soup warmed up But behind the sign and behind the times I heard the sound of the Troubadour
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