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Song of the Day 10/26: The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army”

By Alby October 26, 20205 Comments

It's been an awful year all over the world, which might help explain why a woman confronted Edinburgh, Scotland, street musician Matt Grant last week by grabbing his guitar from…

Song of the Day 10/25: Jerry Jeff Walker, “Mr. Bojangles”

By Alby October 25, 20205 Comments

It almost has the certainty of scientific law: Any hell-raising musician will reach his commercial peak with a song that's slow and sentimental. It certainly proved to be the case…

Song of the Day 10/23: The Spencer Davis Group, “Gimme Some Lovin'”

By Alby October 23, 20201 Comment

Note: This is a guest post by Nathan Arizona. Spencer Davis, who died this week at 81, was one of the most important pioneers of British electric blues-rock and the…

Song of the Day 10/22: Audience, “Indian Summer”

By Alby October 22, 2020

This week might have been too damp to qualify as actual "Indian summer" weather, but I'm not going to let that stop me from resurrecting the only charting single ever…

Song of the Day 10/21: Gen X, “Dancing With Myself”

By Alby October 21, 2020

The jokes about Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN pundit and New Yorker writer who was suspended for exposing himself during a Zoom meeting, pretty much write themselves, but that hasn't stopped…

Song of the Day 10/20: Jeff Bridges, “Maybe I Missed the Point”

By Alby October 20, 2020

Actor Jeff Bridges tweeted out some news yesterday by quoting his most iconic movie character: "As the Dude would say, new shit has come to light." That was his way…

Big Pharma Front Group Touts Carper’s Loyal Service to the Industry

By Alby October 20, 20202 Comments

The beleaguered US Postal Service brought me a mailer yesterday from something billing itself the American Life Sciences Innovation Council announcing that Sen. Tom Carper has received "the 2020 Champion…

Song of the Day 10/19: The Beach Boys, “‘Til I Die”

By Alby October 19, 20203 Comments

Mike Love is still adding to his resume as rock 'n' roll's biggest asshole, this time by headlining a Trump fund-raising concert in Orange County without telling Brian Wilson and…

Song of the Day 10/18: The Avett Brothers, “Early in the Morning”

By Alby October 18, 20204 Comments

HBO is running a "West Wing" reunion show with an interesting twist -- the cast assembles for a stage reading of a highly-regarded episode that originally aired in February 2002.…

Song of the Day 10/16: Poco, “A Good Feelin’ to Know”

By Alby October 16, 20205 Comments

Buffalo Springfield had three guitarists who were also singers and songwriters. Stephen Stills and Neil Young found greater fame after the group disbanded, but Richie Furay, who had the best…

Song of the Day 10/15: Alison Krauss, “When You Say Nothing at All”

By Alby October 15, 2020

Here's the perfect song for Amy Coney Barrett, who spent hours this week saying nothing at all. Alison Krauss recorded it for a 1994 tribute album to Keith Whitley, who…

Song of the Day 10/14: Curtis Mayfield, “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go”

By Alby October 14, 20201 Comment

When Curtis Mayfield left his group for a solo career in 1970, most people were expecting his solo LP "Curtis" to feature the sort of melodic, uplifting soul music that…

Song of the Day 10/13: Richard Thompson, “Persuasion”

By Alby October 13, 20202 Comments

Despite a 50-plus-year career filled with more high points than the landscape of Nepal, Richard Thompson remains what John Peel called him early in his career, "the best-kept secret in…