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  1. 24. Aug. 2021 · A list of the 10 best Tom T. Hall songs according to Holler. ‘The Storyteller’, Tom T. Hall, passed away on August 20, 2021. Here, we look back at his life through the songs that made him one of the greatest country songwriters of all time. ,

    • “That’s How I Got to Memphis”
    • “(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine”
    • “I Like Beer”
    • “Me and Jesus”
    • “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
    • “Little Bitty”
    • “Homecoming”
    • “I Love”
    • “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died”
    • “A Week in A Country Jail”

    In Hall’s 1969 story-song, the narrator recounts, in rich detail, how he arrived in Memphis, Tennessee. The short answer? An undying love. “If you tell me she’s not here, I’ll follow the trail of her tears,” Hall (and Bobby Bare, who covered it in 1970) sang in this track off his album Ballad of Forty Dollars. That trail led the songwriter all the ...

    Hall overheard, wrote, recorded and released this recitation all in the same year: “(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine” appears on 1972’s The Storytellerand remains one of Hall’s most memorable songs. The observational songwriter was in Miami for the Democratic National Convention that year when he encountered a 65-year-old janitor willing to...

    Recorded for Hall’s 1975 LP I Wrote a Song About It, “I Like Beer” is the type of tune you sing arm-in-arm with friends. While at the bar? Even better. The sing-songy nature of the track makes it a nursery rhyme of sorts — for those of drinking age. “Roll out the barrel and lend me your ears,” Hall implores his listeners. Why? Because beer “makes m...

    Hall’s 1972 single “Me and Jesus” eschewed pious evangelizing for a more personal vision of faith: “Me and Jesus got our own thing going/We don’t need anybody to tell us what it’s all about,” he sang, accompanied by a buoyant hand-clapping rhythm and lively barroom piano. Like so many of Hall’s memorable characters, Jesus seems like a regular guy w...

    Hall’s most famous song was, like much of his work, inspired by a real-life woman in his Kentucky town who refused to conform to expectations. “The lady was a really free spirit, modern way beyond the times in my hometown,” Hall told CMT. “They got really huffy about her lifestyle. She took umbrage at that and went down and made a speech to them. I...

    In 1996, Hall released the album Songs From Sopchoppy, inspired by a Florida panhandle town where he spent time. Among the tracks was “Little Bitty,” about the seemingly tiny individual lives and deeds that all add up to one massive whole. “Might as while share, might as well smile/Life goes on for a little bitty while.” “I got that song out of the...

    Anyone who has ever struck out on their own path — perhaps against their parents’ wishes — knows what Hall was getting at in “Homecoming.” In this case, the narrator is a music man struggling to carve out a career who makes that most frightening of trips: a visit to his hometown. Only his father is alive these days, but he still feels the need for ...

    Hall occasionally went away from narratives to do list-style songs, but those were also great. 1973’s “I Love,” which appeared on For the People in the Last Hard Town as well as on the children’s album Songs of Fox Hollow, is an endearingly sweet accounting of the many things he loves: little country streams, sleep without dreams, birds of the worl...

    The titular Clayton Delaney was the best guitar picker in Hall’s town, drank way too much, and suffered miserably during the final two weeks of his life. Or did he? Hall told CMTin 2005 that Delaney was really a fellow named Lonnie Easterly whom he encountered while searching for lyrical inspiration. “I’d get in my car and drive through small town ...

    Hall scored his first Number One as a recording artist with the 1969 single “ A Week in a Country Jail,” which is a surprisingly upbeat song about being locked up for speeding, of all things. Hall’s protagonist makes the mistake of calling his boss instead of someone who will come bail him out, then dines on “hot bologna, eggs, and gravy” brought i...

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  2. The Monkey That Became President. Tom T. Hall top songs include I Love, The Year That Clayton Delaney Died, Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine. They had 18 top 100 hit songs.