Songbook (published in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
as
31 Songs) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
writer
Nick HornbyNick Hornby is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sports, and the both aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was born in...
about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him. In the UK,
Sonyis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
released a stand-alone CD,
A Selection of Music from 31 Songs, featuring 18 songs. The hardcover edition of
Songbook, published in the U.S. by
McSweeney'sMcSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers, author of the books You Shall Know Our Velocity, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry,...
and illustrated by
Marcel DzamaMarcel Dzama is a Canadian artist living in New York City known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings of human figures, animals, and imaginary hybrids. Dzama has a BFA from the University of Manitoba.-Work:...
, includes a
CDA Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...
with 11 of the songs featured in the book.
The music varies from established classics like
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
and
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
to independents like
Ani DiFrancoAni DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
, Top 40 pop like
Nelly FurtadoNelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...
, and a few songs with special meaning only to Hornby.
Songbook (published in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
as
31 Songs) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
writer
Nick HornbyNick Hornby is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sports, and the both aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was born in...
about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him. In the UK,
Sonyis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
released a stand-alone CD,
A Selection of Music from 31 Songs, featuring 18 songs. The hardcover edition of
Songbook, published in the U.S. by
McSweeney'sMcSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers, author of the books You Shall Know Our Velocity, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry,...
and illustrated by
Marcel DzamaMarcel Dzama is a Canadian artist living in New York City known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings of human figures, animals, and imaginary hybrids. Dzama has a BFA from the University of Manitoba.-Work:...
, includes a
CDA Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...
with 11 of the songs featured in the book.
Summary
The music varies from established classics like
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
and
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
to independents like
Ani DiFrancoAni DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
, Top 40 pop like
Nelly FurtadoNelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...
, and a few songs with special meaning only to Hornby. Song by song, Hornby delves into what makes music catchy or classic, and how it can come to play an integral role in a person's emotional life.
Proceeds from the book go to the TreeHouse Trust, a UK charity operating a school for children with
autismAutism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the brain; how this occurs is not well understood...
and communications disorders, which Hornby's son attends, and to
826 Valencia826 Valencia Named for its street location in the Mission District of San Francisco, 826 Valencia was founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and veteran teacher Nínive Calegari, who both have unique ties to the literary and educational community...
, a U.S.-based learning center, founded by McSweeney's publisher
Dave EggersDave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher.-Life:Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father was an attorney and his mother a school teacher. When Eggers was still a child, the family moved to the upscale suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago...
, that offers
writingWriting is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non-textual medium such as magnetic tape audio.In Eurasia writing began as a...
workshops and tutoring.
The paperback edition of
Songbook adds a few music-related essays by Hornby from other sources.
After the release of "Songbook," McSweeney accepted online submissions from authors writing about their favorite songs in the same manner as Hornby. These submissions were posted to the McSweeney
website. Additionally,
TheBlueScarf is a blog adaptation of Hornby's collection.
Contents
There are 31 songs, but only 26 essays; in a few instances, multiple songs are discussed within a single piece.
- Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
- "Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From"
- Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
- "Thunder Road"Thunder Road" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album Born to Run. It is ranked as one of Springsteen's greatest songs, and often appears on lists of the top rock songs of all time....
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- Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...
- "I'm Like a Bird"I'm like a Bird" is a song written by Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, and produced by Gerald Eaton and Brian West, as the first single from her first album Whoa, Nelly! . It was one of the year's critically acclaimed songs and widely considered as Furtado's signature song...
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- Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands, helping to pioneer the genre...
- "Heartbreaker"Heartbreaker" is a song from English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1969 album, Led Zeppelin II. It was credited to all four members of the band, having been recorded at A&R Studios, New York, during the band's second concert tour of the United States, and was engineered by Eddie Kramer."Heartbreaker"...
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- Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks...
- "One Man Guy"
- Santana
Santana is a band consisting of a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. The range of these artists has varied greatly. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world.-Overview:The band was formed in...
- "Samba Pa Ti"
- Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
- "Mama, You Been on My Mind"
- Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
- "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" was a 1965 single by American rock artist Bob Dylan. It reached #58 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #17 on the UK chart in January 1966. It was recorded with The Hawks during the same session where One of Us Must Know was recorded...
" / The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
- "Rain"Rain" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was first released in June 1966 as the B-side of the "Paperback Writer" single...
"
- Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
- "You Had Time" / Aimee MannAimee Mann is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award .-Early life:...
- "I've Had It"
- Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
- "Born for Me"
- Suicide
Suicide is an American synthpunk music duo intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines...
- "Frankie Teardrop" / Teenage FanclubTeenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
- "Ain't That Enough"
- The J. Geils Band - "First I Look at the Purse"
- Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the...
- "Smoke"
- Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough is a Mercury Prize-winning English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire...
- "A Minor Incident" (from the About a Boy movie soundtrackAbout a Boy is an album by Badly Drawn Boy released in 2002 as the soundtrack to the film About a Boy. Unusually, Gough was chosen to compose and perform the entire soundtrack....
)
- The Bible
The Bible were an independent UK band with lead singer Boo Hewerdine. The band released two critically acclaimed albums in the mid 1980s.In 1985 Hewerdine, who worked in a record shop in Cambridge, formed The Bible, recruiting jazz drummer Tony Shepherd and Dave Larcombe...
- "Glorybound"
- Van Morrison
Van Morrison is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter with a reputation for being at once stubborn, idiosyncratic, and sublime...
- "Caravan"Caravan" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album, Moondance. It was a concert highlight for several years and one of the songs on Morrison's 1974 acclaimed live album, It's Too Late to Stop Now.It was also performed by Morrison with The...
"
- Butch Hancock
Butch Hancock is a country/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....
and Marce LaCoutureMarce Lacouture is a folk and cajun recording artist and song writer. She began singing professionally in Austin folk and rock bands and in 1984 formed a duo with Butch Hancock...
- "So I'll Run"
- Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Isaacs is a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae".-Biography:...
- "Puff, the Magic Dragon"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow and made popular by the group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. The song is so well-known that it has entered American and British pop culture.- Lyrics :...
"
- Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...
and the Blockheads - "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, initially released as the single BUY 50 "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 / Common as Muck" issued on July 20th 1979 and reached number 3 in the UK singles Chart the following month...
" / Richard and Linda ThompsonLinda Thompson is a British singer. Born Linda Pettifer in the London Borough of Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock...
- "Calvary Cross"
- Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", "These Days", "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty"...
- "Late for the Sky"
- Mark Mulcahy
Mark Mulcahy is the former front-man for the New Haven, Connecticut-based band Miracle Legion in the 1980s to mid 1990s. The band earned modest renown, especially in their native New England region, but disbanded after a sad turn of events with their record label, Morgan Creek...
- "Hey Self-Defeater"
- The Velvelettes
The Velvelettes was an American singing girl group, signed to Motown Records in the 1960s.-Early years and establishment:The group was founded in 1961 by Bertha Barbee McNeal and Mildred Gill Arbor, students at Western Michigan University...
- "Needle in a Haystack"
- O.V. Wright
Overton Vertis "O. V." Wright was an American singer who is regarded as one of Southern soul's most authoritative and individual artists.-Biography:...
- "Let's Straighten It Out"
- Röyksopp
Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, composed of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. The group formed officially in 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. on Wall of Sound in 2001.- History :...
- "Röyksopp's Night Out"
- The Avalanches
The Avalanches are an electronic music group from Melbourne, Australia, best known for their live DJ sets and debut album Since I Left You, which was assembled from approximately 3,500 vinyl samples.-Origins:...
- "Frontier Psychiatrist" / SoulwaxSoulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, are an alternative rock/electro band from Ghent, Belgium. The two are perhaps best known for their influential contributions to the bastard pop genre under the names Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2 many DJs and the landmark record As Heard on Radio...
- "No Fun" / "Push It"
- Patti Smith Group
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock...
- "Pissing in a River"Pissing in a River" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Ivan Kral, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith Group 1976 album Radio Ethiopia. It was featured in the 1980 movie Times Square. Nick Hornby describes "Pissing in a River" as one of 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to...
"
Paperback additions
- "It's a Mann's World", a review of Aimee Mann's album Bachelor No. 2
Bachelor No. 2 is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, released in 2000. Its full title is Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo. The album is notable for the fact that Mann was initially without a record company and sold the album through her website, but the...
, from The New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications...
- "Alternative Earle", an essay on Steve Earle
Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play...
- "Sweet Misery"
- "The Entertainers", an essay about the Los Lobos
Los Lobos are an American Chicano rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country music, folk, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norteños....
box set El Cancienero Mas Y Mas
- "Pop Quiz"
A Selection of Music from 31 Songs track listing (UK)
- Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
- "Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From"
- Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
- "Thunder Road"Thunder Road" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album Born to Run. It is ranked as one of Springsteen's greatest songs, and often appears on lists of the top rock songs of all time....
"
- Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks...
- "One Man Guy"
- Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
- "Mama You Been on My Mind"
- Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
- "You Had Time"
- Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
- "Born for Me"
- Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the...
- "Smoke"
- Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough is a Mercury Prize-winning English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire...
- "A Minor Incident"
- The Bible
The Bible were an independent UK band with lead singer Boo Hewerdine. The band released two critically acclaimed albums in the mid 1980s.In 1985 Hewerdine, who worked in a record shop in Cambridge, formed The Bible, recruiting jazz drummer Tony Shepherd and Dave Larcombe...
- "Glorybound"
- Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Isaacs is a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae".-Biography:...
- "Puff, the Magic Dragon"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow and made popular by the group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. The song is so well-known that it has entered American and British pop culture.- Lyrics :...
"
- Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...
& The Blockheads - "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"
- Richard and Linda Thompson
Linda Thompson is a British singer. Born Linda Pettifer in the London Borough of Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock...
- "The Calvary Cross"
- Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", "These Days", "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty"...
- "Late for the Sky"
- Mark Mulcahy
Mark Mulcahy is the former front-man for the New Haven, Connecticut-based band Miracle Legion in the 1980s to mid 1990s. The band earned modest renown, especially in their native New England region, but disbanded after a sad turn of events with their record label, Morgan Creek...
- "Hey Self-Defeater"
- The Velvelettes
The Velvelettes was an American singing girl group, signed to Motown Records in the 1960s.-Early years and establishment:The group was founded in 1961 by Bertha Barbee McNeal and Mildred Gill Arbor, students at Western Michigan University...
- "Needle in a Haystack"
- O.V. Wright
Overton Vertis "O. V." Wright was an American singer who is regarded as one of Southern soul's most authoritative and individual artists.-Biography:...
- "Let's Straighten It Out"
- The Avalanches
The Avalanches are an electronic music group from Melbourne, Australia, best known for their live DJ sets and debut album Since I Left You, which was assembled from approximately 3,500 vinyl samples.-Origins:...
- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
- Patti Smith Group
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock...
- "Pissing in a River"Pissing in a River" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Ivan Kral, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith Group 1976 album Radio Ethiopia. It was featured in the 1980 movie Times Square. Nick Hornby describes "Pissing in a River" as one of 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to...
"
Selections from Nick Hornby's Songbook track listing (US)
- Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
- "Born for Me"
- Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
- "Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From"
- The Bible
The Bible were an independent UK band with lead singer Boo Hewerdine. The band released two critically acclaimed albums in the mid 1980s.In 1985 Hewerdine, who worked in a record shop in Cambridge, formed The Bible, recruiting jazz drummer Tony Shepherd and Dave Larcombe...
- "Glorybound"
- Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award .-Early life:...
- "I've Had It"
- Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks...
- "One Man Guy"
- Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
- "Mama, You Been on My Mind"
- Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough is a Mercury Prize-winning English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire...
- "A Minor Incident"
- Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
- "Ain't That Enough"
- Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the...
- "Smoke"
- Mark Mulcahy
Mark Mulcahy is the former front-man for the New Haven, Connecticut-based band Miracle Legion in the 1980s to mid 1990s. The band earned modest renown, especially in their native New England region, but disbanded after a sad turn of events with their record label, Morgan Creek...
- "Hey Self-Defeater"
- Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
- "You Had Time"