You're new to me. I'm new to you …
"Witness," Sarah McLachlan
"Wo Willst du Hin?" Xavier Naidoo
"Woe," Tom Waits
"Woe Is Skinny," Steve Hindalong
"Woke From Dreaming," The Delgados
"Woman at the Well," Nicholas Giaconia
"Woman Be My Country," Johnny Clegg & Savuka
"A Woman Is a Sometime Thing," Louis Armstrong
"Woman Left Lonely," Cat Power
"Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through)," Suzanne Vega
"Woman to Woman," Shirley Brown
"Women and Men," They Might Be Giants
It's seems that the vast majority of songs with the word "woman" in the title don't begin with that word.
The songs listed here come from some really wonderful recordings. The Shirley Brown is on Stax's 50th Anniversary box set, which by itself could get you through any block party. And why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand? Because after 20 years, They Might Be Giants' brand new album Flood is still six kinds of awesome.
But if I had to recommend just one essential thing here for anyone and everyone it would have to be the Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald box set. This isn't just something that every music lover ought to own and cherish, it's something we ought to include on board every deep space probe that we launch out into the beyond so that if there is intelligent life out there, they will know that we can be good and happy beings, capable of truth and beauty and joy. And then if they come here it won't be like Stephen Hawking worries, as a colonial invasion, but rather to share with us the additional verses they've written for "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" cataloging for us the species of their home planet(s).
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