My Top 1000 Songs #132: Don't Ever Change

After a couple days of really big songs, it's time for something much more intimate. I love so much of the music of singer-songwriter Amy Rigby--I recently wrote an Amy Rigby Top 10 over at Toppermost--but the song that affects me most is "Don't Ever Change," off 2003's Til The Wheels Fall Off .

It's a stripped-down, folky acoustic tune, shades of Daniel Johnston's "Speeding Motorcycle" (the Yo La Tengo or Mary Lou Lord version) and Big Star's "Thirteen." Rigby picks a few subjects for her affecti...