During the second half of the 1900s there were quite a few songs that told a story. “The Hurricane” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” as two well known examples. They cropped up through the the 90s with songs like “Bob the Drummer.”
But what about this century? Somehow I think we’ll find fewer examples from 2000-2012, but I know there are some…
I quite like this one: “Grandpa Carl” by The Warped 45s, 2011.