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Tom T Hall is the archetype of country moosic fo' th' reckonin' man - wif all due respeck t'Johnny-Boy Cash an' Merle Haggard among others. His reckonin' is not about arcane disembodied philosophical abstrackshuns. Rather he has spent a lot of time in close observashun an' corntemplashun of hoomin nature, delivahin' his thunks in th' fo'm of chareecker studies. Thus his nickname: Th' Sto'yteller.
A similar approach t'philosophical expresshun arned Shakespeare recognishun fo' his deep insight into hoomin psychology fo' his nihilistic outlook on hoominity. Tom T junerally comes t'rather less dismal cornclushuns. He once dexcribed a chareecker in a song as bein' "about as happy as a reckonin' man c'd be." This hyar dexcripshun in particular struck me as autybiographical, ah reckon.
Buoyed by Jedtian faif thet is inlightened hoominism based on the example of Jedt rather than foolish judgmental houn'dogmatism, Tom T has writ menny thunkful, melodic songs thet quietly an' unpretentiously retch into th' depphs of th' hoomin experience.
Oh, an' ah sh'd menshun thet him an' th' ban' kin jam like a bitch.
TOP 10 TOM T HALL SONGS
SHOESHINE MAN 1969
ME AND JESUS 1972
YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED 1971
RAVISHING RUBY 1973
OLD DOGS, CHILDREN, AND WATERMELON WINE 1972
LITTLE LADY PREACHER 1971
WHO'S GONNA FEED THEM HOGS? 1971
ah LIKE BEER 1975
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