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Songs About Roots
July 7, 2016
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Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)
At: The Guardian

A List
 

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Born in Chains

Leonard Cohen

lelu1984

2

Yma O Hyd (Still Here)

Dafydd Iwan

suzi

3

I Am the Black Book

The Dixie Drifters

SweetHomeAlabama

4

A Seed's a Star

Stevie Wonder

SpotTheWhopper

5

Going Home

Paul Robeson

BeltwayBandit

6

An American Trilogy

Elvis Presley

BlackCombe

7

Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

Carl Perkins

Ravi Raman

8

Williams' Blood

Grace Jones

SpotTheWhopper

9

Irish Blood, English Heart

Morrissey

Thesubhuman

10

European Super State

Killing Joke

bllckchps

11

England, Half English

Billy Bragg

WattaPalaver

12

One Horse Town

Blackberry Smoke

misterbadexample

13

Nowhere is Home

Dexys

wyngatecarpenter

B List
 

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Homeless

Paul Simon

BlackCombe

2

Going Back to My Roots

Odyssey

severin

3

Rise Again

Rankin Family

thoughtballoons

4

Roots

Show of Hands

leifeng1

5

On Hyndford Street

Van Morrison

smithshield

6

Take Me Home Country Roads

John Denver

SpotTheWhopper

7

African Dream

Wasis Diop & Lena Fiagbe

BlackCombe

8

Mr. Bojangles

David Bromberg

mikedow

9

Homeless

JJ Cale

dave56

10

Small Town

Lou Reed & John Cale

Pairubu

11

Africa's Inside Me

Arrested Development

nilpferd

12

Smalltown Boy

Bronski Beat

themallard

13

My Old Man

Lou Reed

dave56

14

The House That Built Me

Miranda Lambert

thoughtballoons

15

Oh Rowan Tree

John McDermott

Oldiebutgoodie

16

Peppers and Tomatoes

Ralph McTell

Steve Wallis

17

Daddy's Oldsmobile

Hal Ketchum

thoughtballoons

18

American Fruits, African Roots

Zulema

Fuel

19

Going Back to My Roots

Richie Havens

Fuel

20

Misalliance

Flanders & Swann

bllckchps

21 Indian Reservation Paul Revere & the Raiders Ravi Raman
22 Massachusetts Bee Gees deanofromoz
23 Forward VNV Nation sseeeglle
24 Kentucky Avenue Tom Waits Mogdog
25 Dirty Pennies Mischief Brew EnglishOutlaw

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