The Marconium – The Complete Index to the Song Bar

Songs Written, Sung or Inspired by Dolly Parton

Sept. 2, 2026
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Writer: magicman

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated By
1	My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy	Dolly Parton	TarquinSpodd
2	I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew	Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner	TarquinSpodd
3	Down From Dover	Dolly Parton	Uncleben
4	I Will Always Love You	Dolly Parton	Nicko
5	The Bargain Store	Dolly Parton	ShivSidecar
6	Little Sparrow	Dolly Parton	tincanman
7	Islands in the Stream	Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers	Marconius7
8	Purple Rain	Dolly Parton	ShivSidecar
9	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Dolly Parton	ShivSidecar
10	After the Gold Rush	Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt	severin
11	Powerful Women	Pitbull ft. Dolly Parton	ShivSidecar
12	Wildflowers	Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt	TarquinSpodd
13	Light of a Clear Blue Morning	The Wailin' Jennys	Alison Dempster
14	Touch Your Woman	Margie Joseph	Uncleben
15	There'll Always Be Music	Tina Turner	BanazirGalbasi
16	Fuel to the Flame	Skeeter Davis	severin
17	Son of Jolene	Belles with Dolly Parton	severin
18	Jolene	Beyoncé with Dolly Parton & Willie Nelson	severin
19	I Hope You Dance	Lee Ann Womack	SweetHomeAlabama
20	Independence Day	Martina McBride	BanazirGalbasi
21	Caroline	Kirsty MacColl	Alison Dempster
22	WWDD	Lainey Wilson	Loud Atlas
23	Coat of Many Colors	P!nk, Brandi Carlile & Zac Brown Band	severin
24	Backwoods Barbie	Dolly Parton	ShivSidecar

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Songs About Detours and Diversions

Aug. 26, 2026
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Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Highways and Byways	Belbury Poly	Koinuchan
2	Classic Northern Diversions	Jackie Leven	TatankaYotanka
3	San Francisco Mabel Joy	Mickey Newbury	tincanman
4	No Particular Place to Go	Chuck Berry	ParaMhor
5	Detour	The Interns	Nicko
6	I Wander	Real Lies	DiscoMonster
7	Follow the Drinking Gourd	Joe & Eddie	nosuchzone
8	Back Road Into Town	The Staple Singers	Nicko
9	Detour	Patti Page	TarquinSpodd
10	Detour	Willie Nelson & Leon Russell	BanazirGalbasi
11	Since I Met You	B.B. King & Katie Webster	Nicko
12	Detour Ahead	Ella Fitzgerald & Herb Ellis	Nicko
13	Detour	Bo Diddley	severin

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Long and Winding Road	The Beatles	happyclapper
2	Stop This Car	Jonathan Richman	TarquinSpodd
3	Diversion	IST IST	Vikingchild
4	Motorway to Roswell	Pixies	happyclapper
5	Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)	Johnny Cash	Vikingchild
6	Detour Through Your Mind	The B-52s	Vikingchild
7	Detour Up	Metric	Vikingchild
8	The English Motorway System	Black Box Recorder	Vikingchild
9	Sneaking Sally Through the Alley	Robert Palmer	severin
10	Starting Over	Chris Stapleton	tincanman
11	The Trip	Dave Rawlings Machine	tincanman
12	Transcendent Rambling Railway Blues	Colter Wall	tincanman
13	Loch Lomond	Paul Robeson	TatankaYotanka
14	A Fork in the Road	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	ParaMhor
15	Detour Ahead	Della Reese	nosuchzone
16	Battened Ships	Odyssey	pejepeine
17	Ithaca	Sean Connery/Vangelis	pejepeine
18	Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)	Bob Marley	Nicko
19	Driftin' Blues	Charles Brown	Nicko
20	Take a Back Road	Rodney Atkins	Loud Atlas
21	High Time for a Detour	k.d. lang	magicman
22	Distracted	Al Jarreau	Fred Erickson
23	Fable of the Urban Fox	Arab Strap	happyclapper
24	Recycled	Brooklyn Funk Essentials	tincanman
25	The Valley Road	Bruce Hornsby	BanazirGalbasi
26	Officer Material	Cathar Coghlan	Max Visconta Nuclearosa
27	Didn't Cha Know	Erykah Badu	DiscoMonster

C List

	August 26, 2026
	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Rainstorm	Bernard Hermann	Loud Atlas
2	Divertimento	Dave Brubeck	BanazirGalbasi
3	Side Tracked	Freddie King	Nicko

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Songs About In-Betweens

Aug. 19, 2026
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Writer: Nicko

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)	Connie Converse	TarquinSpodd
2	思春期病 [Puberty Trouble]	Yapoos	TarquinSpodd
3	Inbetweenies	Ian Dury & the Blockheads	ParaMhor
4	Somewhere In Between	Kate Bush	magicman
5	The Purgatory Line	Drive-By Truckers	ShivSidecar
6	Gap Year	Phantastic Ferniture	TarquinSpodd
7	The Space Between	Roxy Music	BanazirGalbasi
8	Julien dans l'Ascenseur	Miles Davis	Nilpferd
9	The Space Between	Brainticket	Uncleben
10	Expecting	Minnie Riperton	pejepeine
11	Middle Distance	IST IST	Vikingchild
12	A Rock and a Hard Place	The Sisters of Mercy	vanwolf2
13	Smack Dab in the Middle	Charlie Calhoun & his Orchestra & Chorus	Fred Erickson
14	Men in Prison	Jackie Leven	TatankaYotanka
15	The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (And That Which Cannot Be Repeat)	Peter Murphy	Vikingchild
16	檳榔樹下搖網床 [Hammock Hanging Between Betel Trees]	北京天使合唱團 [Beijing Angelic Choir]	TarquinSpodd
17	Hejira	Joni Mitchell	severin

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Inbetweenies	The Goodies	Shoegazer
2	The Rebuttal of Schrödinger's Cat	Sarah Donner	Loud Atlas
3	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive	Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra	Vikingchild
4	In-Between	Judy Garland	Marconius7
5	Tra Le La Le La Triangle	Patsy Cline	tincanman
6	Laughter and Tears	The Womack Sisters	SongBarLandlord
7	Mr Inbetween	Alan Hull	SongBarLandlord
8	Distance Fades Between Us	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Drak	vastariner
9	Wrapped Around Your Finger	The Police	nosuchzone
10	In Between Days	The Cure	happyclapper
11	In Betweens	The Only Ones	happyclapper
12	Inbetweener	Sleeper	Uncleben
13	Tulugak	Tanya Tagaq	tincanman

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Songs About Big Things

Aug. 12, 2026
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Column
Writer: Loud Atlas

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Big Fun (12" Mix)	Inner City	Nicko
2	Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-a-Lot	amylee
3	Big Fight	Prince Far I	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
4	Suur Tamm (The Great Oak)	Collage	pejepeine
5	The World's Biggest Paving Slab	English Teacher	vanwolf2
6	Great Fire	XTC	ShivSidecar
7	Big	New Fast Automatic Daffodils	vanwolf2
8	The Largest Elizabeth in the World	The Roches	Uncleben
9	La Cathedrale de Strasbourg	Focus	Fred Erickson
10	Canada's Really Big	The Arrogant Worms	Marconius7
11	Big Dick Energy	Lambrini Girls	Vikingchild
12	Gaston	Jesse Corti & Richard White	Marconius7
13	They Call Me Big Mama	Big Mama Thornton	Nicko

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Maracanã	Azymuth	pejepeine
2	Everest	Public Service Broadcasting	tincanman
3	Musi-O-Tunya	Misty in Roots	Uncleben
4	Big Muff	John Martyn	nosuchzone
5	Mr. Big Stuff	Jean Knight	Marconius7
6	Hymn of the 7th Galaxy	Return to Forever	nosuchzone
7	50ft Queenie	PJ Harvey	happyclapper
8	Giant of Illinois	Andrew Bird	ShivSidecar
9	Big Big Love	k.d. lang & the Reclines	BanazirGalbasi
10	(Drawing) Rings Around the World	Super Furry Animals	ParaMhor
11	Big Bad John	Jimmy Dean	Marconius7
12	Big in Japan	Alphaville	Nicko
13	The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done	Woody Guthrie	Nicko
14	The Marrow Song (Oh What a Beauty!)	The Wurzels	Marconius7
15	Life Is Large	The Kennedys	Fred Erickson

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Songs About Unrequited Love (2)

Aug. 5, 2026
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Column
Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Dancing on My Own	Robyn	tincanman
2	Dreams Burn Down	Ride	ParaMhor
3	Walk Away Renee	Four Tops	amylee
4	You Don't Love Me	Dawn Penn	severin
5	Passin' Me By	The Pharcyde	pejepeine
6	You on My Mind	Swing Out Sister	nosuchzone
7	Kim the Waitress	The Green Pajamas	ShivSidecar
8	You Don't Know My Name	Alicia Keys	amylee
9	Yumeji's Theme	Shigeru Umebayashi	ParaMhor
10	I Can't Make You Love Me	Bonnie Raitt	amylee
11	Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)	Buzzcocks	TarquinSpodd
12	If I Can't Have You	Yvonne Elliman	amylee
13	Cupid	Sam Cooke	ParaMhor
14	You Belong with Me	Taylor Swift	Marconius7
15	Cruel	Prefab Sprout	vanwolf2
16	I Keep It Hid	Alice Clark	pejepeine
17	Bad Religion	Frank Ocean	Uncleben
18	Never Be Mine	Angel Olsen	TarquinSpodd
19	Peggy Sue	Buddy Holly	TarquinSpodd
20	White Flag	Dido	tincanman

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Songs About Tourists & Tourism

July 29, 2026
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Column
Writer: Loud Atlas

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Magical Mystery Tour	The Beatles	vastariner
2	VACATION	Connie Francis	Marconius7
3	The Tourist	Radiohead	Maki
4	Camino del Sol	Antena	pejepeine
5	Tourist Take Over	Lord Kitchener	TatankaYotanka
6	Lovely Money	The Damned	ShivSidecar
7	Club Tropicana	Wham!	ParaMhor
8	TURiSTA	Bad Bunny	Maki
9	Summer Here Kids	Grandaddy	happyclapper
10	I Ran All the Way Home	Black Box Recorder	tincanman
11	Tourist Leggo	King Short Shirt	Nicko
12	Postcard	Frida Hyvönen	barbryn
13	Makin' Wickey-Wackey Down in Waikiki	Al Bowlly	Nicko
14	Safe European Home	The Clash	pejepeine
15	Ysabel's Table Dance	Charles Mingus	TatankaYotanka

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou	Grant Hart	happyclapper
2	Our Last Summer	ABBA	Vikingchild
3	Every Fucking City	Paul Kelly	Nicko
4	Hoteles, Sol y Playa	Maria Jaume ft Pau Debon	Maki
5	You Belong to Me	Jo Stafford	TarquinSpodd
6	Luton Airport	Cats U.K.	pejepeine
7	Jumbo Jet	The Addy Flor Orchestra	pejepeine
8	Hotel Mini Bar	Jackie Leven	TatankaYotanka
9	Tourista	Youssou N'Dour	Uncleben
10	The Village of St. Bernadette	Andy Williams	SweetHomeAlabama
11	Magic America	Blur	Noodsy
12	Postcard	The Bonzo Dog Band	nosuchzone
13	Makudonarudo	Namewee ft Meu Ninomiya	ajostu
14	The Weekend of a Private Secretary	Red Norvo's Orchestra & Mildred Bailey	Nicko
15	So Good to Be Home Again	The Tourists	vastariner

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Songs About Summers of Love

July 22, 2026
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Column
Writer: ParaMhor

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Do You Believe in Magic	The Lovin' Spoonful	Marconius7
2	Get Together	The Youngbloods	SweetHomeAlabama
3	Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In	The 5th Dimension	Marconius7
4	The Happening	The Supremes	magicman
5	Somebody to Love	Jefferson Airplane	Marconius7
6	Girl from New York	Billy Nicholls	Uncleben
7	California Soul	The Messengers	Nilpferd
8	Nature	The Fourmyula	Nilpferd
9	The Red Telephone	Love	TarquinSpodd
10	London Social Degree	Dana Gillespie	ShivSidecar
11	I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)	The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
12	Indian Summer	The Doors	Nicko
13	Slip Inside This House	The 13th Floor Elevators	TarquinSpodd
14	The Other One	Grateful Dead	Chris7572

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Here Comes the Summer	The Undertones	Uncleben
2	Seven Days in the Summer	Feeder	happyclapper
3	Summer Rain	The Primitives	vastariner
4	Solar Power	Lorde	barbryn
5	Summertime	The Sundays	SweetHomeAlabama
6	Summer of Love	Jess Ribeiro	severin
7	Summer	War	SweetHomeAlabama
8	Summer (The First Time)	Millie Jackson	TatankaYotanka
9	NUEVAYoL	Bad Bunny	pejepeine
10	Friends in Time	The Golden Horde	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
11	Johnny Was a Good Boy	The Mystery Trend	Vikingchild
12	One Blood	Junior Reid	MussoliniHeadkick
13	Girls of Summer	Arab Strap	barbryn

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Songs With or About Summer Insect Sounds

July 15, 2026
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Writer: severin

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Cicada Song	The Dimen Dong Folk Chorus	SongBarLandlord
2	I Think We're Alone Now	Tommy James & the Shondells	SweetHomeAlabama
3	Grasshoppers in My Pillow	Lead Belly	Nicko
4	Cigarra	Simone	pejepeine
5	I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong	David Byrne	SongBarLandlord
6	Crickets in Moonlight	Lee "Scratch" Perry	Shoegazer
7	Hard Times	Ethel Cain	magicman
8	Baby Bug	Samm Bennett	SongBarLandlord
9	The Ant and the Grasshopper	Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey	TatankaYotanka
10	Cicada	La Luz	vanwolf2
11	Grasshopper	The Mamas & the Papas	ShivSidecar
12	You Are the Everything	R.E.M.	Vikingchild
13	Green Arrow	Yo La Tengo	magicman

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Grasshopper Baby	Marie Knight	Nicko
2	A Great Grey Grasshopper	Ivor Cutler Trio	TarquinSpodd
3	The Cricket Song	Ella Fitzgerald	Loud Atlas
4	When the Day Is Clear	The Grasshoppers	pejepeine
5	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	Joni Mitchell	SongBarLandlord
6	Crickets	Peter Cowap	ShivSidecar
7	Summer's Cauldron	XTC	Maki
8	Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation	Santana	Fred Erickson
9	Kiếp Ve Sầu	Nhật Thiên Lan	Nicko
10	Harvest Moon	Cassandra Wilson	nosuchzone
11	Cow, Crickets and Clay	Minilogue	Shoegazer

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Songs About Umbrellas

July 8, 2026
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Column
Writer: TatankaYotanka

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Monique Leyrac	Uncleben
2	My Umbrella	Iraina Mancini	barbryn
3	Little Umbrellas	Frank Zappa	Nicko
4	Hiding Neath My Umbrella	God Help the Girl	vastariner
5	Rosie	Joan Armatrading	severin
6	Cinderella	Eric Donaldson	Nicko
7	Loraine	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Nicko
8	It's Raining Men	The Weather Girls	Vikingchild
9	Parasol	Tori Amos	severin
10	Fiddler in the Rain	Robb Johnson	treefrogdemon
11	Bus Stop	The Hollies	barbryn
12	Ballet for a Rainy Day + 1000 Umbrellas	XTC	ShivSidecar

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Umbrella	Manic Street Preachers	Shoegazer
2	Monsters in the Parasol	Queens of the Stone Age	happyclapper
3	Umbrella Man	The Searchers	ShivSidecar
4	All the Umbrellas in London	The Magnetic Fields	barbryn
5	Umbrella	The Baseballs	Marconius7
6	Maracatu Atômico	Gilberto Gil	Nicko
7	Little Umbrellas	Kristian Bush	BanazirGalbasi
8	Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella	Lee Morse	Nicko
9	Blue Umbrella	John Prine	Fred Erickson
10	Manchester	The Beautiful South	DiscoMonster
11	One Nation Under a Brolly	Trixie's Big Red Motorbike	pejepeine
12	Hotel Yorba	The White Stripes	ShivSidecar

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Songs on the “Art” of Drinking

July 1, 2026
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Column
Writer: Nicko

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	I'm Not to Blame	Sun Ra & his Orkestra	SongBarLandlord
2	Absinthe	Beth Orton	severin
3	All I Ever Am	The Cure	tincanman
4	Big Louise	Scott Walker	TarquinSpodd
5	Autoclave	The Mountain Goats	Shoegazer
6	She Moves Among Men (The Barmaid's Song)	June Tabor	ShivSidecar
7	Queen of the Silver Dollar	Emmylou Harris	treefrogdemon
8	Hell in a Bucket	Grateful Dead	Chris7572
9	Baudelaire	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	happyclapper
10	The Fits Come on Me Now or the Bishop of Chester's Jigg	The Broadside Band	ParaMhor
11	Medieval	James	DiscoMonster
12	La Taberna del Buda	Café Quijano	Maki
13	I Want You	Marvin Gaye	pejepeine
14	I Got Loaded	Peppermint Harris	AltraEgo
15	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Green Day	Marconius7
16	Between the Bars	Elliott Smith	Uncleben
17	It's Been a Long, Long Time	Yoshiko Shinkura	Jamesowen475
18	Nighthawk Postcards (from Easy Street)	Tom Waits	BanazirGalbasi

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Galop infernal (Can-Can)	Jacques Offenbach	TarquinSpodd
2	Beddy Bye (Strangers in the Night)	Bert Kaempfert	Marconius7
3	L'Absinthe	Barbara	BanazirGalbasi
4	Latin Quarter	Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees	TarquinSpodd
5	En Mi Casa Es el Desorden	Joel Mosquera	pejepeine
6	Nightclubbing	Grace Jones	severin
7	Dream Kitchen	Mark Stewart	Shoegazer
8	Punishment of Luxury	Engine of Excess	Maki
9	Booze Party	Three Aces and a Joker	TarquinSpodd
10	Pieta (La Piccola)	Wire	ShivSidecar
11	Absinthe	The Damned	severin
12	Lonely Crowd	Alice Phoebe Lou	SongBarLandlord
13	I Don't Want the Night to End	Phoebe Snow	Marconius7
14	Pictures of You	The Cure	ParaMhor

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Sept. 2, 2026 Blog Column Writer: magicman

Aug. 26, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)

Aug. 19, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Nicko

Aug. 12, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Loud Atlas

Aug. 5, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

July 29, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Loud Atlas

July 22, 2026 Blog Column Writer: ParaMhor

July 15, 2026 Blog Column Writer: severin

July 8, 2026 Blog Column Writer: TatankaYotanka

July 1, 2026 Blog Column Writer: Nicko

Sept. 2, 2026
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Writer: magicman

Aug. 26, 2026
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Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)

Aug. 19, 2026
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Writer: Nicko

Aug. 12, 2026
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Writer: Loud Atlas

Aug. 5, 2026
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Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

July 29, 2026
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Writer: Loud Atlas

July 22, 2026
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Writer: ParaMhor

July 15, 2026
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Writer: severin

July 8, 2026
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Writer: TatankaYotanka

July 1, 2026
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Writer: Nicko