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You Play a Caryatid Easy: Songs About Constancy

We start with some songs about faithful women this week before moving on to some more abstract examinations of constancy. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!

We start with some songs about faithful women this week before moving on to some more abstract examinations of constancy. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!

  • 0:00

    Son Volt, “Caryatid Easy” (Straightaways, 1996)

  • 6:04

    Clip: Death of a Salesman

  • 9:07

    Tammy Wynette, “Stand by Your Man” (Stand by Your Man, 1969)

  • 11:43

    Dixie Hummingbirds, “Loves Me Like a Rock” (We Love You Like a Rock, 1973)

  • 15:09

    Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

  • 17:10

    Fruit Bats, “Rushin’ River Valley” (A River Running to Your Heart, 2023)

  • 20:53

    The 77s, “Dig My Heels” (Direct, 2002)

  • 24:22

    Rosanne Cash, “If You Change Your Mind” (King’s Record Shop, 1987)

  • 28:27

    Fleetwood Mac, “Over My Head” (Fleetwood Mac, 1975)

  • 31:18

    The Rolling Stones, “Ruby Tuesday” (single, 1967)

  • 34:34

    Wilco, “I’m a Wheel” (A Ghost Is Born, 2004)

  • 37:15

    Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Constancy to an Ideal Object”

  • 42:33

    Still Woozy, “Lava” (Lately, 2019)

  • 42:33

    Madison Cunningham, “Something to Believe In” (Who Are You Now, 2019)

  • 46:31

    Liars, “The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack” (Drum’s Not Dead, 2006)

  • 51:55

    Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together” (Let’s Stay Together, 1972)

  • 55:07

    The Beatles, “Eight Days a Week” (Beatles for Sale, 1964)

  • 59:27

    George Jones, “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (I Am What I Am, 1980)

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Michial Farmer

Michial Farmer is a poet, essayist, and history teacher. He is the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel’s Thirst (Cluny, 2021). He lives in Atlanta.

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