I also really, really love "My Baby Needs a Shepherd." Such a clever, chilling use of bedtime story imagery and repetition with variations, all the things her baby needs until it finally comes down to "My baby needs a mother." And "to the cradle come the crows." It took me a moment to remember the actual title, because I always think of it as "The Song of Rachel's Mother."

"Red Dirt Girl," "Michelangelo," and "My Antonia" are my other favorites off that album.

Wrecking Ball is the one with "Going Back to Harlan" and "Deeper Well"-- hey-- the latter is also on my list of "Songs About Ineffable Yearning." That whole album is brilliant.