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Song of the Day 8/22: Crabmeat Thompson, “Small Wonder”

By Alby August 22, 20212 Comments

Readers of the News Journal might not know this, but Delaware folksinger and raconteur Jerry "Crabmeat" Thompson died in June. I first heard this from friends who saw it on…

DL Open Thread Sunday, August 22, 2021

By Alby August 22, 20212 Comments

The hypocrisy of the media's war cheerleading sure is coming a-cropper, with every pom-pom-waving "military analyst" shitting on Biden as their always-questionable usefulness comes to an end. No, you're not…

Song of the Day 8/21: Grace Vonderkuhn, “Rock and Roll Gary”

By Alby August 21, 2021

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Newark’s Grace Vonderkuhn rips headlong through her garage/psych/power-punk songs, but her burgeoning career hit a speed bump during the Covid shutdown. Her band, a trio…

Song of the Day 8/19: Bo Burnham, “Welcome to the Internet”

By Alby August 19, 20211 Comment

Bo Burnham is usually classified as a comedian, but he's just as easily categorized as a musician, one in the tradition of Tom Lehrer with a tad of Kurt Weill…

DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021

By Alby August 19, 20213 Comments

Why would a guy, a Florida governor let's say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with…

Song of the Day 8/18: Elvis Costello, “Blame It on Cain”

By Alby August 18, 2021

From Elvis' first album, with Clover backing him. John McFee's jazzy guitar and Costello's delivery of his cryptic lyrics dominate the track. Nobody's ever come up with a satisfying explanation…

Song of the Day 8/17: The Felice Brothers, “Jazz on the Autobahn”

By Alby August 17, 20212 Comments

WXPN has had this tune in heavy rotation since it dropped two months ago, but I didn't hear it until this weekend. The Felice Brothers, who began with a trio…

Song of the Day 8/16: Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”

By Alby August 16, 20215 Comments

Who lost the war in Afghanistan? Certainly not the defense industry, which got the lion's share of the trillion dollars the country wasted waging it. Big win for them. The…

DL Open Thread Sunday, August 15, 2021

By Alby August 15, 20218 Comments

One of them finally spilled the beans. A congressional aide told journalist Julia Ioffe the reason Republican politicians are getting their own constituents killed: About a month ago, I was…

Song of the Day 8/14: Nanci Griffith, “Tecumseh Valley”

By Alby August 14, 2021

Nanci Griffith was an accomplished singer and songwriter who broke through after moving from her native Austin to Nashville in 1985, but her greatest acclaim came with her Grammy-winning 1993…

Song of the Day 8/13: Bruce Springsteen, “I’m Goin’ Down”

By Alby August 13, 2021

Enough with the ersatz Bruce -- let's play some of the real thing. Springsteen recorded this track with the E Street Band in 1982, at the same Power Station sessions…

Song of the Day 8/12: Marah, “Point Breeze”

By Alby August 12, 20212 Comments

Yesterday's post about Jack Antonoff's solo project Bleachers included the tune he recorded with Bruce Springsteen, and I mentioned how much it sounded like one of Springsteen's late-period moody ballads.…

DL Open Thread Thursday, August 12, 2021

By Alby August 12, 20219 Comments

Legal experts are saying the evidence piling up against the Previous Guy makes an indictment of the pretend president inevitable. This means it has less than a 50-50 chance of…