Comments on: Help me find this bluegrass/country song about missing home and missing someone!

Question: Help me find this bluegrass/country song about missing home and missing someone!

Grandysaur — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:21:30 -0800

Namethatsongfilter: Last winter/spring, I heard a bluegrass/country song on the radio. It was about coming home to a loved one. What was it?

I heard it on KTAO in Taos NM, around February-May. The singer ways male. It sounded more recent than old-timey. Mellow sounding. I'm pretty sure it was accoustic, and it makes me thing of the warm yellow panels of light that shine out on the snow from windows on a winter night, but I'm unsure whether or not that scene was in the lyrics. It may or may not have featured and cabin that the male singer was returning to. He was returing to his love. Help?

By: cairdeas

cairdeas — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:30:42 -0800

I'll guess Wagon Wheel.

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:36:11 -0800

Longshot, I think probably not it, but:

Howlin' Down the Cumberland, by John Hiatt

By: and so but then, we

and so but then, we — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:18:38 -0800

It may or may not have featured and cabin that the male singer was returning to. He was returing to his love.

This part fits Cabin in Caroline, a bluegrass classic that has been very frequently covered. I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that a younger and mellower band had done a younger and mellower version of it.

Of course, "missing your girlfriend" and "hoping to return home" describe basically every bluegrass lyric ever, so I'm really just reacting to the "cabin" part.

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:28:58 -0800

Your description made me think of Tim O'Brien's "I'm Not Gonna Forget You." (Amazon link. Not on YT, but here's a cover. Lyrics.) Male, more recent, mellow, acoustic, warm in its way, cabin (though he's returning to her there only in memory).

By: rhizome

rhizome — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:29:55 -0800

Throwing in "I Still Miss Someone."

Johnny Cash
Gram Parsons

By: not that girl

not that girl — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:32:56 -0800

I think this is not it, because it's not blue grassy or acoustic or mellow enough, but Lone Star, Front Porch Looking In? In case it triggers a string of associations leading to the right song.

By: fancyoats

fancyoats — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:08:54 -0800

Is it Poor Wayfaring Stranger?

By: sybarite09

sybarite09 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:31:17 -0800

Was it Zac Brown Band Colder Weather?

By: Daily Alice

Daily Alice — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:07:53 -0800

Longshot because it's not recent: Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot.

By: masquesoporfavor

masquesoporfavor — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:15:04 -0800

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros?