We’re looking back with a golden haze this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, listening to songs about nostalgia (and its high-class cousin, antiquarian feeling). Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Buddy and Julie Miller, “Ellis County” (Written in Chalk, 2009)
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5:08
Willie Nelson, “Family Bible” (Yesterday’s Wine, 1971)
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8:15
Emmylou Harris, “Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz” (White Shoes, 1983)
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15:21
Reading: Sallust, The Jugurthine War
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16:54
Reading: Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy”
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20:20
Okkervil River, “Pink-Slips” (The Silver Gymnasium, 2013)
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23:58
Chance the Rapper featuring Vic Mensa and Twista, “Cocoa Butter Kisses” (Acid Rap, 2013)
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30:57
Charles Trenet, “Douce France” (single, 1947)
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34:06
Midlake, “Roscoe” (The Trials of Van Occupanther, 2009)
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38:48
Bryan Adams, “Summer of ’69” (Reckless, 1984)
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44:27
The Beatles, “Penny Lane” (single, 1967)
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47:25
David Crosby, “Too Young to Die” (Thousand Roads, 1993)
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54:56
Laura Cantrell, “Old Downtown” (Humming by the Flowered Vine, 2005)
