John, OM & his U - gets my tear ducts flowing again with his poignant song about a lass who was dismissed as homely, but was anything but.
Wendy brings us Tom Lehrer's rather bleak (if darkly hilarious) vision of a typical US Town.
Val, gets me all nostalgic by bringing us a song my Mum and Dad used to sing when the electricity was off in Lagos, Nigeria (an almost daily occurrence - not their singing of that particular song, but rather the lights going out).
Chris brought a bare bones version of a Talking Heads son that really caused me to focus on the lyrics. And he revealed a high register that I, for one, have rarely heard before.
Good Uke Boy wrings every drop of nostalgia out of his gentle paced cover of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" - Eat your heart out Izzy!
Jon Duncan adds his usual passionate seal to a Mountain Goats' song that has their signature lyrical style written all over it.
Bob King (and his "twin") bring us a wonderful song written by Kevin, that I missed first time around).
John gives us a superb song that could have come from the pen of one of my favourite songwriters: Jason Isbell.
Andrew does a full on take on a Talking Heads song that rings in my ears as those guitar arpeggios linger long after the song finishes! Nice one! Recommended!
Joo brings us a delightful insight into an aspect of Chinese culture I had never heard of. As I noted in the comments, China has a third of humanity, yet we in the "West" know so little about its history and culture, other than old clichés.
Rob reminded us of his wonderful mash up of version of "I ain't got not home in this world anymore" - with his particular "Old Gardner Guy sound" brilliantly illustrated here.
Wendy then sang us (with a cricket chorus) a fine Willy Nelson song reminding those who don't vote that they have no right to complain about who is in power if they didn't bother to vote.
I was expecting a lot of nostalgic lyrics this season, but I didn't fully realize what an emotional week I was letting myself in for with this theme. You guys (and Gals) have really been delivering the emotions this week! Thanks........... I think