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1974

301: Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts

302: Tangled up in blue

303: You're a big girl now

304: Shelter from the storm

305: Bell tower blues

306: If you see her, say hello

307: Call letter blues

308: There ain't gonna be a next time

309: Where do you turn (turning point)?

310: It's breakin' me up

311: Simple twist of fate

312: Idiot wind

313: Don't want no married woman

314: You're gonna make me lonesome when you go

315: Up to me

316: Ain't it funny

317: Little bit of rain

318: Buckets of rain

319: Meet me in the morning

1975-6

320: Money blues

321: Footprints in the sand

322: One more cup of coffee (valley below)

323: Golden loom

324: Oh sister

325: Abandoned love

326: Isis

327: Joey

328: Rita May

329: Hurricane

330: Black diamond bay

331: Catfish

332: Mozambique

333: Romance in Durango

334: Sara

335: Sign language

336: Wiretappin'

337: Patty's gone to Laredo

338: What will you do when Jesus comes?

339: Seven days

1977-8

340: I'm cold

341: Changing of the guards

342: Is your love in vain?

343: Senor (tales of Yankee power)

344: No time to think

345: True love tends to forget

346: We better talk this over

347: Where are you tonight? (journey through dark heat)

348: First to say goodbye

349: Her version of jealousy

350: If I don't be there by morning

351: Walk out in the rain

352: Coming from the heart (the road is long)

353: New pony

354: Baby stop crying

355: Stop now

356: Afternoon

357: Romance blues

358: Satisfy me

359: Baby give it up

360: Someone else's arms

361: Tell me the truth one time

362: Responsibility

363: Wandering kind

364: What's the matter?

365: Brown skin girl

366: Her memory

367: Without you

368: Miss tea and sympathy

369: More than flesh and blood

370: I must love you too much

371: Stepchild

372: You don't love me no more

373: This a-way, that a-way

374: Take it or leave it

375: Daddy's gonna take one more ride

376: Legionnaire's disease

377: Slow train

378: Do right to me baby (do unto others).

1979-80

379: Gotta serve somebody

380: I believe in you

381: Ye shall be changed

382: Trouble in mind

383: Man gave names to all the animals

384: No man righteous (no not one)

385: Gonna change my way of thinking

386: Precious angel

387: When you gonna wake up?

388: When he returns

389: Saving grace

390: Stand by faith

391: Blessed is the name

392: Covenant woman

393: In the garden

394: Pressing on

395: Saved

396: Solid rock

397: What can I do for you?

398: Are you ready?

399: Be that way

400: I will love him

401: Cover down break through

402: Ain't gonna go to hell for anybody

1980-1

403: Property of Jesus

404: Every grain of sand

405: Caribbean wind

406: Groom's still waiting at the altar

407: Yonder comes sin

408: Let's keep it between us

409: Makin' a liar

410: City of gold

411: Shot of love

412: You changed my life

413: Angelina

414: Heart of mine

415: Is it worth it?

416: Yes sir, no sir (halleluiah)

417: In the summertime

418: Need a woman

419: Almost persuaded

420: Borrowed time

421: Rockin' boat

422: I want you to know I love you

423: Gonna love you anyway

424: Movin' (wait & see)

425: Fur slippers

426: Singing this song for you

427: Reach out

428: Ah ah ah

429: All the way down

430: Wind blowin' on the water

431: Child to me

432: King is on the throne

433: Be careful

434: Magic

435: Dead man, dead man

436: Trouble

437: Don't ever take yourself away

438: Watered-down love

439: Lenny Bruce

440: Jesus is the one

441: Thief on the cross

442: Let me begin to love

1982-3

443: It's right

444: Jokerman

445: I and I

446: Clean cut kid

447: Union sundown

448: Blind Willie McTell

449: Don't fall apart on me tonight

450: License to kill

451: Man of peace

452: Sweetheart like you

453: Back to the wall

454: How many days?

455: Half-finished song

456: Prison station blues

457: Someone's got a hold of my heart (=tight connection)

458: Neighborhood bully

459: Tell me

460: Foot of pride

461: Julius and Ethel

462: Lord protect my child

463: Death is not the end

1984-6

464: I once knew a man

465: Who loves you?

466: Almost done (angel of rain)

467: I see you round and round

468: Dirty lie

469: Enough is enough

470: Go 'way little boy

471: Honey, wait for me

472: Driftin' too far from shore

473: New Danville girl (=Brownsville girl)

474: Something's burning, baby

475: Look yonder

476: Gravity song

477: Prince of plunder (=maybe someday)

478: Seeing the real you at last

479: I'll remember you

480: Queen of rock and roll

481: Trust yourself

482: Emotionally yours

483: Straight as in love

484: Very thought of you

485: Waiting to get beat

486: When the night comes falling from the sky

487: When the line forms

488: Never gonna be the same again

489: Dark eyes

490: As time passes by

491: Too hot to drive

492: Shake

493: Under your spell

494: Band of the hand (it's hell time man!)

495: Rock em' dead

496: You wanna ramble

497: Got my mind made up

498: Jammin' me

499: Had a dream about you, baby

500: Ride this train

501: To fall in love with you

502: Night after night

503: Fear, hate, envy, and jealousy

1987-9

504: Love rescue me

505: Congratulations

506: Political world

507: What good am I?

508: Dignity

509: Handle with care

510: Dirty world

511: End of the line

512: Heading for the light

513: Last night

514: Margarita

515: Not alone anymore

516: Rattled

517: Tweeter and the monkey man

518: Born in time

519: God knows

520: Disease of conceit

521: What was it you wanted

522: Broken days (=everything is broken)

523: Ring them bells

524: Series of dreams

525: Most of the time

526: Three of us

527: TV talkin' song

528: Where teardrops fall

529: Shooting star

530: Man in the long black coat

1990-5

531: Handy dandy

532: Cat's in the well

533: 10,000 men

534: Night of the living dead.

535: Unbelievable

536: Under the red sky

537: Heartland

538: Wiggle wiggle

539: 2 x 2

540: Shirley Temple don't live here anymore

541: Devil's been busy

542: If you belonged to me

543: Inside out

544: Like a ship

545: Seven deadly sins

546: She's my baby

547: Where were you last night?

548: New blue moon

549: Wilbury twist

550: Poor house

551: Cool, dry place

552: You took my breath away

553: Steel bars

554: Well, well, well

555: Howlin' at your window

556: Tragedy of the trade

557: Time to end this masquerade

1996-9

558: Dirt road blues

559: Can't wait

560: Mississippi

561: Highlands

562: All I ever loved is you

563: Dreamin' of you

564: Marchin' to the city (=doing alright)

565: Million miles

566: Not dark yet

567: Red river shore

568: Standing in the doorway

569: Cold irons bound

570: Tryin' to get to heaven

571: Make you feel my love

572: Til I fell in love with you

573: Love sick

574: Things have changed

2000-1

575: Summer days

576: Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

577: Honest with me

578: Lonesome day blues

579: Bye and bye

580: Floater (too much to ask)

581: Moonlight

582: Po' boy

583: High water (for Charlie Patton)

584: Cry a while

585: Sugar baby

586: Waitin' for you

2002-6

587: Cross the green mountain

588: Tell Ol' Bill

589: Can't escape from you

590: Thunder on the mountain

591: Spirit on the water

592: Rollin' and tumblin'

593: When the deal goes down

594: Someday baby

595: Workingman's blues #2

596: Beyond the horizon

597: Nettie Moore

598: Levee's gonna break

599: Ain't talkin'

600: Huck's tune

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