Earl Scruggs and Friends, Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Ella Fitzgerald, Misty. Beats the Johnny Mathis version. A standard from the Great American Songbook.
Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. Not from the Great American Songbook. And presumably not about weather conditions.
Cream, Sunshine of Your Love
Tom Waits, Emotional Weather Report
Art Garfunkel and James Taylor, Crying in the Rain. Written by Carole King and popularized by the Everly Bros.
Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Written by Fred Rose and performed by Roy Acuff in the '40s.
Now my hair is turned to silver
All my life I've loved in vain
I can see her star in heaven
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain.
Someday when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again
In a land that knows no parting
Blue eyes crying in the rain.
Allman Bros., Blue Sky
Kansas, Dust in the Wind
Eric Clapton, Let It Rain
Dave van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, Clouds (Both Sides Now). This beautiful version by "The Mayor of MacDougal street" goes out to luthier Dave Bagwill who I know will appreciate it. Judy Collins made a hit of it. And you still doubt that the '60s was the greatest decade for American popular music? Speaking of the greatest decade, it was when the greatest writer of American popular songs, bar none, Bob Dylan, made his mark.
Joan Baez, A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall
Eva Cassidy, Over the Rainbow. Another old standard from the Great American Songbook.
Tom Waits, On a Foggy Night
Rolling Stones, She's A Rainbow
Dan Fogelberg, Rhythm of the Rain
UPDATE (4/30)
Kai Frederik Lorentzen points us to Weather in My Head by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. Good tune!
Dave Bagwill sends us to a clip in which van Ronk talks a bit about the days of the "Great American Folk Scare" and then sings his signature number, "Green, Green, Rocky Road."
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