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As I answered a recording engineer friend a few years ago, who asked me for the three greatest pop songs of all time (in no order):

Hard Day’s Night Lennon-McCartney / Beatles

Mood Indigo Ellington-Strayhorn

Superstition Morris / Stevie Wonder

Going back a ways, and specifying country/hillbilly music:

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams

The Prisoner’s Song Guy Dahlhart

Many more – I can’t think of them right now

Going back a ways, and specifying race music/blues:

Pony Blues Charley Patton

Green River Blues Charley Patton

Kansas City Blues William Harris, recorded 1927

Big Road Blues Tommy Johnson

Anything by Blind Blake.

Flashing forward, pretty much anything by Kurt Cobain, or Johnny Cash, lots of early/mid-period Beatles and lots of songs Elvis did before they drafted him.

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Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips. Her voice is so powerful and emotional in this.
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot, maybe my all-time favorite.
Tear-stained Eye -** Son Volt**
Annabelle, and Tear My Stillhouse Down -** Gillian Welch**
Superstar - Luther Vandross
Train in Vain -** Clash**
Who the Cap Fit - Marley
If You Stop Believin’ -** BR-549**
*Sugaree *- Grateful Dead
Angry All The time - **Bruce Robison **
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
This Misery -Wild Colonials
What Becomes of the Broken-hearted - Jimmy Ruffin (my first '45, and i still have it)
It was a Good Year for the Roses - **Elvis Costello **
Blue - Lucinda Williams
Jolie Blonde - Zachary Richard
Blowers Daughter - Damien rice
Mirrorball - ** Everything But the Girl