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Song of the Day 3/25: The Lemon Pipers, “Green Tambourine”

By Alby March 25, 20212 Comments

I'm as anti-insurrection as the next guy, but I think the feds may be overreaching in the case of Sara Carpenter, 51, of Queens, who was arrested for entering the…

DL Open Thread Thursday, March 25, 2021

By Alby March 25, 20212 Comments

I don't know if you've noticed, but ever since The Last Guy left DC the news has lacked the crisis-a-minute pace it maintained for four years. Say what you want…

Song of the Day 3/24: Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”

By Alby March 24, 20214 Comments

When Rolling Stone magazine recalculated its 500 greatest albums list last year, giving greater weight to musicians' opinions and less to the critics, a new No. 1 emerged -- Marvin…

Song of the Day 3/22: Jethro Tull, “Locomotive Breath”

By Alby March 22, 20212 Comments

The other day I saw a list of LPs released in 1971, and the phrase "embarrassment of riches" barely scratches the surface. None of them got spun as often among…

DL Open Thread Sunday, March 21, 2021

By Alby March 21, 20211 Comment

Vladimir Putin is demonstrating that he's just like the fake president he installed in the U.S. -- a big baby incapable of running a country on anything but the thuggist…

Song of the Day 3/19: The Undisputed Truth, “Smiling Faces Sometimes”

By Alby March 19, 2021

The worst part of the story about the Biden White House firing staffers who admitted to past marijuana use is the fact that they were told such admissions would not…

Song of the Day 3/18: Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Immigration Man”

By Alby March 18, 2021

When a U.S. Customs official detained then-Brit Graham Nash as he tried to enter the country, he wrote "Immigration Man." Nash was ticked off because he wasn't given a reason…

DL Open Thread Thursday, March 18, 2021

By Alby March 18, 20216 Comments

The "crisis" on the southern border isn't a crisis, it's a logistics problem, as demonstrated by the administration's vacillation about reopening the child migrant shelter in Homestead, Fla.. Other that…

Song of the Day 3/17: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, “Brennan on the Moor”

By Alby March 17, 20212 Comments

Sure, celebrating St. Paddy's Day by partying is an American invention, but so is an important element of this traditional Irish outlaw ballad. The song was popularized by a Clancy…

Song of the Day 3/16: Bill Parsons, “She Blinded Me With Science”

By Alby March 16, 2021

Maybe Thomas Dolby is the reason Republicans distrust science -- they're afraid it will make them go blind. I like covers that show a different side of a familiar song,…

Song of the Day 3/15: Emma Swift, “Queen Jane Approximately”

By Alby March 15, 2021

Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift, who works out of Nashville, released a well-received album of Bob Dylan covers last August, "Blonde on the Tracks," that I only caught up with because…

DL Open Thread Sunday, March 14, 2021

By Alby March 14, 2021

Among the generally strong reviews of Joe Biden's first presidential address, a few pundits are pointing out that the most important part wasn't even spoken out loud: The overthrow of…

Song of the Day 3/12: Sturgill Simpson, “In Bloom”

By Alby March 12, 2021

I guess it's my week for country-adjacent covers of rock songs. Sturgill Simpson turns Nirvana's tuneful grunge-pop nugget into a power ballad that builds to a horn-embellished climax worth of…