Well, speaking strictly lyrically, I will cling to Folkin' Around as my emo song for the rest of my natural-born days; I don't actually like the album version much because of the damn fiddles but I have three different live versions in my collection and when he performed it on HCT I was dripping tears. The LDS references are so obvious to me and it's such a brave song about finding your self and your own faith and just...seriously, every time my bigoted oldest brother makes a crack about gay people or my father reminds me that God loves me and as proof of that I will someday find a nice man and have lots of children, I go lock myself up and play the Glastonbury version over and over and over again until I can breathe, despite the fact that I am 24 and really too old for that kind of thing.

Of Ryan's songs, I think quality-wise Gentleman, She Had the World, Rabbits, and Pas de Cheval were the best; I actually really love Downpour although I think it's more fractured and my personal favorite is Day Met the Night but a big part of that actually is the sound of it separate from the lyrics.