this is my first time here and it has kept me busy for over an hour reading others "stop dead in your tracks' songs and thinking about mine (thanks, i needed that!)

the first one that came to mind for me was elvis' are you lonesome tonight. i can remember the day it "literally" stopped me in my tracks. after that thay just came flooding in like the old friends they are. just recently, sarah mclaughlin (sp?) in the arms of the angels, took me quite by surprise. summertime. moonlight sonata. and yes, i am also a leonard cohen fan. gosh, there are many. and many that you all mentioned i have never heard, but would like to. oh, on tv one time i heard dwight yokum do in the garden, yes, it stopped me in my tracks. oops i belive the phrase was drop everything. there are so many folk and blues songs that do. that's why we love them. thanks, what a great thread and an interesting place.