SoTW Index
Here’s a complete chronological list of all published SoTWs for your browsing convenience. Please do feel free to sign up for email notifications of new postings.
- Mint Juleps, ‘Don’t Let Your Heart‘
- Buddy Holly, ‘Learning the Game‘ (undubbed)
- Jerry Garcia & Dave Grisman, ‘So What?‘
- The Beach Boys, ‘Kiss Me Baby‘
- JS Bach, ‘Toccata in Cm‘ (BWV 911) – Glenn Gould
- Elvis Costello, ‘Accidents Will Happen‘ (Live)
- John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, ‘My One and Only Love‘
- Fairport Convention, ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine‘ (Dylan)
- Barbra Streisand, ‘Lover Come Back To Me‘ (live)
- Charles Mingus, ‘Remember Rockefeller at Attica‘
- The Idea of North, ‘Fragile‘ (Sting)
- Arvo Pärt, ‘Cantate Domino’
- Tim Hardin, ‘Black Sheep Boy’
- Woodstock, the event (Hebrew); Joni Mitchell, ‘Woodstock’ (in English)
- Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth), ‘Down So Long’
- Bob Dylan, ‘Percy’s Song’
- Chano Dominguez, ‘Tangos del Fuego’ (Red Sea Jazz Festival)
- Paul McCartney, ‘Distractions’
- Johnny Dyani, ‘Shvarim’
- Esperanza Spalding, ‘I Know You Know’
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, ‘Snake Out’
- Roberta Sa and Chico Buarque, ‘Mambembe’
- Tommy Edwards, ‘It’s All in the Game’
- Oi Va Voi, ‘Refugee’
- The Zombies, ‘Care of Cell 44’
- Andy Bey, ‘River Man’
- Lennie Tristano, ‘Wow’
- Smokey Robinson, ‘The Tracks of My Tears’
- Eva Cassidy, ‘Over the Rainbow’
- The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Women’s Choir (Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares), ‘Pilentze Pee’
- The Beach Boys, ‘Little Saint Nick’
- Duke Ellington, “Take the ‘A’ Train” (Billy Strayhorn)
- Radka Toneff, ‘The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress’ (Jimmy Webb)
- Dionne Warwick, ‘Walk On By’ (Burt Bacharach)
- Miles Davis, ‘Boplicity’ (“Birth of the Cool”)
- Nyro, ‘Sweet Blindness’ (ELaurali & the 13th Confession)
- Lee Konitz, ‘Alone Together’ (w/ Mehldau & Haden)
- Van Morrison, ‘Astral Weeks’
- Blind Willie Johnson, ‘Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time’
- Lennie Tristano Quintet, ’317 East 32nd’ (Live in Toronto 1952)
- Miles Davis, ‘It Never Entered My Mind’
- Leiber & Stoller, ‘Yakety Yak’ (The Coasters)
- The Left Banke, ‘Pretty Ballerina’
- Paul Robeson, ‘Let My People Go’
- Julie London, ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’
- James Taylor, ‘Never Die Young’
- Bobby McFerrin, ‘The Garden’ (“Vocabularies”)
- Sam Cooke, ‘Bring It On Home To Me’
- Chrysalis, ‘Summer in Your Savage Eyes’
- The Rolling Stones, ‘Gimme Shelter’ (Kent State Shootings)
- The Ross Sisters, ‘Solid Potato Salad’
- The Lovin’ Spoonful, ‘Girl, Beautiful Girl’
- The Beatles, ‘In My Life’
- Mickey and Sylvia, ‘Love is Strange’
- Miles Davis/Gil Evans, ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’
- James Taylor, ‘Secret O’ Life’
- Anita O’Day, ‘Tea for Two’
- Dave Frishberg, ‘Van Lingle Mungo’
- The Real Group, ‘Joy Spring’
- The Bill Evans Trio, ‘Gloria’s Step’
- The Doobie Brothers, ‘What a Fool Believes’
- Martha and the Vandellas, ‘Heat Wave’
- Pust, ‘En Reell Halling’
- Janis Joplin and Tom Jones, ‘Raise Your Hand’
- Ella Fitzgerald, ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’
- Rickie Lee Jones, ‘Skeletons’
- Musica Nuda, ‘I Will Survive’
- Hermeto Pascoal, ‘Santa Catarina’
- Catherine Russell, ‘New Speedway Boogie’
- Buddy Holly, ‘That’ll Be the Day’
- Lyy, ‘Giftavisan’
- Stephen Stills, ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ (“Just Roll Tape” demo)
- Erik Satie, ‘Gymnopedie No. 1’
- Donovan, ‘House of Jansch’
- Joao Gilberto, ‘Chega De Saudade’
- Roy Orbison, ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’
- JS Bach, ‘Conrapunctus 9’, “Art of the Fugue” (Emerson Quartet)
- Paul Simon, ‘The Late, Great Johnny Ace’
- Miles Davis, ‘So What’ (“Kind of Blue”)
- Norah Jones, ‘Wild Horses’
- Maria Schneider, ‘The Pretty Road’
- Dion, ‘Sit Down, Old Friend’
- Ezio Pinza, ‘Some Enchanted Evening’
- Shostakovich, Prelude & Fugue No 16 in B-flat Minor (Tatiana Nikolaeva)
- Randy Newman, ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today’
- Steve Reich, ‘Different Trains’
- Bob Dylan, ‘Black Diamond Bay’
- Lizz Wright, ‘Old Man’
- Jackson Browne/Maurice Williams, ‘The Load-Out/Stay’
- The Cyrkle, ‘Red Rubber Ball’
- Herbie Nichols, ‘House Party Starting’
- Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, ‘Babar’ (“The Melody of Rhythm”)
- Leon Russell, ‘A Song for You’
- Brad Mehldau, ‘Martha My Dear’
- Derek & the Dominos, ‘Little Wing’
- Bill Evans, ‘Easy to Love’
- Mstislav Rostropovich, ‘Cello Concerto Opus 43, Adagio’ (Mieczyslaw Weinberg)
- John Sebastian, ‘Younger Generation’
- Luciana Souza, ‘Baião à Tempo’
- Luciana Souza, ‘Chorinho Pra Ele’ (“Brazilian Duos”)
- Kurt Elling, ‘Li’l Darlin’’
- Natanela ‘Shir HaYona’ (Matti Caspi)
- Little Stevie Wonder, ‘Fingertips’
- Charles Mingus, ‘Myself When I am Real’/’Adagio Ma Non Troppo’
- Boswell Sisters, ‘Crazy People’
- Joni Mitchell, ‘Cactus Tree’
- The Association, ‘Everything That Touches You’
- Michael McDonald/Luciana Souza ‘I Can Let Go Now’
- Daniel Zamir, ‘Shir HaShomer’
- Mongolian Throat Singing (The Occidental Tourist)
- David Crosby (The Byrds), ‘Everybody’s Been Burned’
- James Taylor, ‘Yesterday’
- JS Bach, ‘Prelude’ (Suite #2 for Cello) – Pablo Casals
- Luciana Souza, ‘Morrer de Amor’
- Astor Piazzolla, ‘Tango: Zero Hour’
- Van Morrison, ‘Tupelo Honey’
- Carole King, ‘It Might as Well Rain Until September’
- Brian Wilson, ‘Surf’s Up’
- Tom Harrell, ‘Train Shuffle’
- Sam Cooke, ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’
- George Harrison, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (acoustic version)
- George Harrison, ‘You Know What to Do’ b/w Buddy Holly, ‘You’re the One’
- Ray Stevens, ‘Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolvin’ Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills’
- Bill Evans, ‘Nardis’
- Bee Gees, ‘Holiday’
- Dylan, ‘Tears of Rage’ (Basement Tapes)
- The Band, ‘Tears of Rage’ (Music from Big Pink)
- The Isley Brothers, ‘Twist and Shout’
- Franz Schubert, ‘Death and the Maiden’
- Thelonious Monk, ‘Well, You Needn’t’
- Nickel Creek, ‘Somebody More Like You’
- James Taylor, ‘Enough To Be On Your Way’
- Spencer Davis Group, ‘I’m A Man’
- Lee Konitz, ‘Duende’
- Kaveret, ‘Medina Ktana’
- Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, ‘Wonderful World’
- Patience and Prudence, ‘Gonna Get Along Without You Now’
- Eliane Elias, ‘Baubles, Bangles and Beads’
- Swingle Singers, ‘On the 4th of July’ (James Taylor)
- Randy Newman, ‘Sail Away’
- Joni Mitchell, ‘I Don’t Know Where I Stand’
- Kat Edmonson, ‘Champagne’
- Christian McBride, ‘Killer Joe’
- Fleet Foxes, ‘Montezuma’
- Peter, Paul & Mary, ‘Early Morning Rain’
- Hamilton Camp, ‘Pride of Man
- Frank Sinatra, ‘It Was a Very Good Year’
- Andy Williams, ‘Days of Wine & Roses’
- Antony & the Johnsons, ‘Epilepsy is Dancing’
- Matti Caspi, ‘Lo Tov Heyot Adam Levado’
- Otis Redding, ‘Dock of the Bay’
- Sam Cooke, ‘A Change is Gonna Come’
- Christlieb & Marsh, ‘Magna-Tism’
- Laura Nyro, ‘Save the Country’
- Buddy Holly, ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’
- Nilsson, ‘Without Her’
- Nilsson, ‘One’
- Paul Simon, ‘Surfer Girl’
- Smokey robinson, ‘Ooh Baby, Baby’
- Smokey Robinson & Aretha Franklin, ‘Ooh Baby, Baby’
- Swingle Singers, ‘Sinfonia’ (JS Bach)
- Everly Brothers, ‘Crying in the Rain’
- Joni Mitchell, ‘For Free’
- Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’
- Paul Simon, ‘Jonah’
- John Martyn, ‘Bless the Weather’
- James Blake, ‘Lindisfarne’
- Neal Hefti, ‘Girl Talk’
- The Mills Brothers, ‘Jungle Fever’
- Laura Nyro, ‘Luckie’ (“Eli & the 13th Confession”)
- Jackson Browne (with David Crosby), ‘Something Fine’
- Anúna, ‘Jerusalem’
- The Real Group, ‘Nature Boy’
- Vocal Line, ‘Don’t Give Up’
- Traffic, ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’
- Chuck Berry, Too Much Monkey Business (Dylan, Subterranean)
- Joni Mitchell, ‘Woodstock’
- Claudia Quintet +1 (with Kurt Elling), ‘Showtime’
- Tom Waits, ‘Ruby’s Arms’
- Tim Reis, ‘Jumping Jack Flash’
- Linda Ronstadt & J.D. Souther, ‘Faithless Love’
- The Shirelles, ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’
- Love, ‘Alone Again Or’ (Bryan MacLean)
- Arik Einstein, ‘Ruach Stav’
- Frank Sinatra, ‘High Hopes’
- The Everly Brothers, ‘All I Have to Do Is Dream’
- Trombone Shorty, ‘Hurricane Season’
- Imogen Heap/Vocal Line, ‘Let Go’
- Choir of Young Believers, ‘Hollow Talk’ (Nordic Noir TV)
- Bob Dylan, ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’
- The Fleetwoods, ‘Mr. Blue’
- Les Double Six of Paris, “Moanin'”
- The Band, ‘Rockin’ Chair’
- The Rolling Stones, ‘Not Fade Away’ (1964)
- Hoagy Carmichael, ‘Skylark’
- Ray Charles, ‘You Don’t Know Me’
- Paul Simon, ‘Hearts and Bones’
- Buffalo Springfield, ‘Rock and Roll Woman’
- Janis Ian, ‘At Seventeen’
- Bert Jansch, “Avocet”
- Bob Dylan, ‘All Along the Watchtower’
- Laura Nyro, ‘The Confession’
- Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles: ‘Spirit in the Dark’
- Bob Dylan, ‘Idiot Wind’ (NY Sessions)
- James Taylor, ‘Something’s Wrong’
- Lake Street Dive (Rachael Price), ‘I Want You Back’
- The Beatles, ‘Rocky Raccoon’; and Bob Dylan, ‘Frankie Lee and Judas Priest’/’Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts’
- Vocalocity, ‘Is Your Love Big Enough?’
- The Real Group: ‘Monica Vals’ (‘Waltz for Debby’)
- Tigran Hamasyan, ‘Drip’
- Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, ‘Help, I’m a Rock’ (“Freak Out!”)
- Bon Iver (Justin Vernon), ‘Towers’
- Tommy Tucker, ‘Hi-Heel Sneakers’
- Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’
- Billie Holiday, ‘God Bless the Child’
- Amy Winehouse, ‘Back to Black’
- Bo Diddley, ‘Who Do You Love’
- Woody Guthrie, ‘Red River Valley’
- Cilla Black, ‘Alfie’
- The Drifters (Doc Pomus), ‘Save the Last Dance for Me’
- Joni Mitchell, ‘River’
- Ibrahim Maalouf, ‘Conspiracy Generation’
- Bob Dylan, ‘Motorpsycho Nightmare’
- Brad Mehldau, ‘The Falcon Will Fly Again’/Luis Bonfa, ‘Manha de Carnaval’
- The Byrds, ‘Eight Miles High’ (RCA Version)
- Vitamin String Quartet, ‘All Along the Watchtower’
- Roger Treece, Achinoam Nini (Noa)/Gil Dor, Vocalocity — ‘Zeh Po, Zeh Mugan’
- The Beatles: ‘I’ve Just Seen a Face’ (“Rubber Soul” at 50)
- The Beach Boys, ‘Here Today’ (“Pet Sounds” Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 14)
- 10cc, ‘I’m Not in Love’
- Sufjan Stevens, ‘Romulus’
- Laura Nyro, ‘And When I Die’
- Carole King, ‘Up On the Roof’ (Live, 1971)
- The Singing Nun, ‘Dominque’
- Jacob Collier, ‘Hideaway’
- Wilbert Harrison, ‘Kansas City’
- Marvin Gaye, ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’
- Ben Howard, ‘Keep Your Head Up’
- The Staves, ‘No Me, No You, No More’
- John Sebastian, ‘Welcome Back’
- Dhafer Youssef, ‘Les Ondes Orientales’ (with Tigran Hamasyan)
- Ricky Nelson, “I’m Walkin'”
- Bill Evans/Miles Davis, ‘On Green Dolphin Street’
- Johnny Mathis, ‘Misty’
- Tom Waits, ‘Kentucky Avenue’
- Perry Como, ‘Kol Nidre’
- Bob Dylan, ‘You Ain’t Going Nowhere’
- Bobby Vee, ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’
- Mose Allison, ‘Young Man’s Blues’
- The Maysles Brothers, “The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit”
- The Beatles, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
- 253: Edgar Winter, ‘Rise to Fall’ (Indefensible Mixes)
- Vince Guaraldi/We Five, ‘Cast Your Fate to the Wind’
- Simon & Garfunkel, ‘Mrs Robinson’
- The Mamas & The Papas, ‘Once Was a Time I Thought’
- Alison Krauss/Brenda Lee: ‘All Alone Am I’
- Stephen Stills, ‘Do For the Others’
- Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau: ‘Marcie’ (Joni Mitchell), ‘Don’t Think Twice’ (Dylan)
- David Crosby/Joni Mitchell, ‘Yvette in English’
- Kurt Elling/Sting, ‘Practical Arrangement’
- Bob Dylan, ‘Went to See the Gypsy’ (“Another Self-Portrait”)
- Lovin’ Spoonful (John Sebastian), ‘Summer in the City’
- Folk’Avant, ‘9th of August’
- Dion DiMucci, ‘Abraham, Martin and John’
- Vertical Voices, ‘The Cry and The Smile’
- Boz Scaggs, ‘Lowdown’ (“Fade Into Light”)
- Damien Rice, ‘The Blower’s Daughter’ (Natalie Portman’s Aunt)
- Brian Wilson, ‘Sandy’/’Sherri She Needs Me’/’She Says That She Needs Me’
- Laura Nyro, ‘Stoney End’ (Seattle Bootleg, 1971)
- Laura Nyro, ‘Walk on By’ (Bootleg Collection)
- Vilray, ‘Do Friends Fall in Love?’ (with Rachael Price)
- The Necks, ‘Sex’
- Tim Hardin, ‘Reason to Believe’
- Sandy Bull, ‘Blend’
- Leo Kottke, ‘Eggtooth’ (New Acoustic)
- Joni Mitchell, ‘Electricity’
- The Danish String Quartet, ‘Sønderho Bridal Trilogy – Part II’/Dreamers’ Circus, ‘Kitchen Stories’
- Ásgeir, ‘Torrent’
- Charles Ives, ‘The Unanswered Question’