Artist	Song
James Taylor	Fire and Rain
from James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2009)
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi
from Dreamland (2004)
Cat Stevens	Peace Train
from Gold: Cat Stevens (2005)
Carole King	It's Too Late
from Tapestry (1998)
Jackson Browne	The Pretender
from The Next Voice You Hear - The Best of Jackson Browne (2007)
Jim Croce	Time In a Bottle
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Harry Chapin	Cat's In the Cradle
from Verities & Balderdash (2005)
Billy Joel	Piano Man
from The Essential Billy Joel (2001)
Gordon Lightfoot	Sundown
from Gord's Gold (2010)
Neil Young	Heart of Gold
from Neil Young: Greatest Hits (2004)
Carly Simon	You're So Vain
from The Best of Carly Simon (2008)
Paul Simon	Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
from The Essential Paul Simon (2010)
Neil Diamond	Song Sung Blue
from The Neil Diamond Collection (1999)
John Denver	Leaving On a Jet Plane
from John Denver: Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits (2004)
Bob Dylan	Tangled Up In Blue
from The Best of Bob Dylan (2005)
Rickie Lee Jones	Chuck E's In Love
from Rhino Hi-Five: Rickie Lee Jones - EP (2005)
Don McLean	Vincent
from American Pie (1987)
Dan Fogelberg	Longer
from Phoenix (1984)
Janis Ian	At Seventeen
from Between the Lines (1986)
Bobby Fuller Four	Let Her Dance
from I Fought the Law - The Best of Bobby Fuller Four (2004)
Leonard Cohen	Famous Blue Raincoat
from The Best of Leonard Cohen (1987)
Phoebe Snow	Poetry Man
from Phoebe Snow (1995)
John Prine	Angel from Montgomery
from Rhino Hi-Five: John Prine - EP (2007)
Jimmy Buffett	Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
from Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (1993)
Tom Waits	The Heart of Saturday Night
from The Asylum Years (2005)
Randy Newman	I Think It's Going to Rain Today
from Rhino Hi-Five: Randy Newman - EP (2005)
Dave Loggins	Please Come to Boston
from Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) (2008)
Warren Zevon	Poor Poor Pitiful Me
from A Quiet Normal Life - The Best of Warren Zevon (2008)
John Sebastian	Welcome Back (Theme from Welcome Back, Kotter)
from The Best of John Sebastian (2005)
Steve Goodman	City of New Orleans
from No Big Surprise - The Steve Goodman Anthology (1994)
Harry Nilsson	Coconut
from Harry Nilsson: All Time Greatest Hits (1989)
Townes Van Zandt	Pancho and Lefty
from Be Here to Love Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2006)
Van Morrison	Domino
from His Band and the Street Choir (2005)
Nick Drake	Pink Moon
from Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake (2003)
Al Stewart	Time Passages
from Al Stewart: Greatest Hits (2006)
J.D. Souther	You're Only Lonely
from You're Only Lonely (1990)
Steve Forbert	Romeo's Tune
from Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1999)
Michael Murphey	Wildfire
from Blue Sky - Night Thunder (1987)
Joan Baez	Diamonds and Rust
from Joan Baez: Greatest Hits (1996)
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are
from Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws (Deluxe Edition) (2003)
James Taylor	Shower the People
from James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2009)
Harry Chapin	Taxi
from Rhino Hi-Five: Harry Chapin - EP (2005)
Laura Nyro	New York Tendaberry
from New York Tendaberry (2002)
Gordon Lightfoot	Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
from Rhino Hi-Five: Gordon Lightfoot - EP (2005)
Kris Kristofferson	Why Me
from Kris Kristofferson: Super Hits (1999)
Carole King	You've Got a Friend
from Tapestry (1998)
Danny O'Keefe	Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
from Rhino Hi-Five: Danny O'Keefe - EP (2006)
Neil Young	Only Love Can Break Your Heart
from Neil Young: Greatest Hits (2004)
Stephen Bishop	On and On
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Stephen Bishop (2002)
Joni Mitchell	River
from Blue (2007)
Cat Stevens	Morning Has Broken
from Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits (2000)
Carly Simon	That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
from The Best of Carly Simon (2008)
Jim Croce	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
from Life and Times (2008)
Bruce Springsteen	4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
from The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (1984)
Billy Joel	She's Got a Way
from Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (2002)
Paul Simon	Kodachrome
from The Essential Paul Simon (2010)
Joan Armatrading	Down to Zero
from Joan Armatrading: Greatest Hits (1996)
Tim Buckley	Song to the Siren
from The Dream Belongs to Me - Rare and Unreleased Recordings 1968/1973 (2004)
Bob Dylan	Hurricane
from The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
Randy Newman	Sail Away
from Sail Away (2005)
Tom Waits	Ol' 55
from Closing Time (2008)
Vashti Bunyan	Diamond Day
from Just Another Diamond Day (2004)
Don McLean	Castles In the Air
from The Best of Don McLean (Remastered) (1989)
Linda Thompson & Richard Thompson	Withered and Died
from The Best of Richard and Linda Thompson: The Island Record Years (2000)
Sandy Denny	It'll Take a Long Time
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sandy Denny (2002)
Leonard Cohen	Bird On the Wire
from The Best of Leonard Cohen (1987)
Judee Sill	Jesus Was a Cross Maker (Remastered)
from Judee Sill (2005)
Guy Clark	L.A. Freeway
from The Essential Guy Clark (1997)
Loudon Wainwright III	Drinking Song
from Album III (1990)
Kris Kristofferson	Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
from The Essential Kris Kristofferson (2004)
Jesse Winchester	The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
from Jesse Winchester (2006)
Arlo Guthrie	Gabriel's Mother's Highway Ballad #16 Blues
from Washington County (remastered 2004) (2005)
Bill Withers	Grandma's Hands
from The Best of Bill Withers - Lean on Me (2000)
David Ackles	Another Friday Night
from American Gothic (2005)

Comment:

As the '60s came to a close, singer-songwriters turned away from counter-cultural chaos, retreating into themselves, their pensive, introspective songs applying a much-needed alternative to the big, the loud, and the overly commercial. Here was a new breed of artists, sensitive and honest, unafraid of sharing their innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. From Canada's Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, to England's Cat Stevens and Joan Armatrading, to the wellspring of Americans who made up most of the '70s singer-songwriters, they weren't writing songs merely to get on the radio and sell records — they had something vital to say. Our [i]'70s Singer-Songwriters[/i] Essentials assembles the cream of the entire crop — from "Heart of Gold" and "Piano Man" to "Cat's In the Cradle" and "Wildfire" — each song a defining classic of the era.

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