Friday Random Ten: "No Place Away"

This seems like a funny song to be listening to on a spring morning, but it's a cool grey gloomy morning. My car was parked underneath a spirea bush all night and now there are tiny white petals everywhere in my hair and on my sweater. When I turned on the iPod, it was in this Greg Brown almost all the time mode, and I heard several old favorites from him. But this one ("No Place Away") resonated kind of hard, so I listened to it a few times through before I went in to my office:

"Words like notes, strokes along a thigh
long slow seduction on an autumn night
when autumn was still autumn

wait a minute now, everybody just hold it
let's think about this -- whoa, whoa now
aint there no place away?

and I tried to hide, live there like they used to
but the sadness sent me letters every day
saying there's no place away

tell me where the hope lies to bear the world
to bear the destruction in which we all participate
tell me where the hope lies to bear the world
to bear the destruction in which we all participate

oh I wanna hear
Words like notes, strokes along a thigh
long slow seduction on an autumn night
when autumn was still autumn

pour you out some hot tea, build up the fire
we'll sit here & listen to the ancient choir
singing, singing, singing singing,
hallelujah
hallelujah
hallelujah

mmmmmm"

It's from the highly excellent "Dream Cafe" which I think came out in the mid or late 90s on Red House Records. So here's the next ten:

1. "Rollin the Dice" Jim Lauderdale (The Hummingbirds)
2. "Uncle Alvarez" Liz Phair (whitechocolatespaceegg)
3. "Reuben's Train" Old Crow Medicine Show (Greetings from Wawa)
4. "Dealing With the Distance" The Cash Brothers (A Brand New Night)
5. "Trois Petits Points" Paris Combo (Attraction)
6. "Water When the Well is Dry" Buddy Miller (Midnight & Lonesome)
7. "Death of a Ladies' Man" Leonard Cohen (Death of a Ladies' Man)
8. "Read About Love" Richard Thompson (Rumour & Sigh)
9. "Joy" Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)
10. "Two Left Feet" Richard Thompson (Watching the Dark)

[Credit to Rox Populi and/or Trish Wilson's Blog and/or Feministe for the FRT feature. I'm not sure who came up with it, but it's fun to find out what everybody's listening to. Play along at home if you like: set your music-listening device to shuffle play and write down the first ten songs you hear. You can list them on your very own blog or here in the comments. Have fun!]