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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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