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Song of the Day 9/9: Randy Newman, “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)”

By Alby September 9, 2020

Randy Newman's "Good Old Boys," his controversial 1974 concept album sung from the viewpoint of a Southern everyman named Johnny Cutler, was put together over many months and included a…

Song of the Day 9/8: Gary U.S. Bonds, “Out of Work”

By Alby September 8, 20201 Comment

For 11.5 million Americans, Labor Day wasn't a day off – they have no job to go back to. Bruce Springsteen wrote this song for Bonds during the singer's early-80s…

Song of the Day 9/7: Huey Lewis and the News, “Workin’ for a Living”

By Alby September 7, 20203 Comments

For those too young to have lived through their heyday, at least as music fans, Huey Lewis and the News were sort of the Hootie and the Blowfish of their…

Song of the Day 9/6: Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Three Little Birds”

By Alby September 6, 20202 Comments

Like every other Democrat, I'm worried about how much damage Trump can do before he's shitcanned for good, but for just this weekend, fuck it. The weather's great, Trumpers are…

Song of the Day 9/4: The Cure, “The Last Day of Summer”

By Alby September 4, 2020

Summer unofficially ends this weekend, and if it feels weird it might be because, except for the hot weather, it hasn't felt much like summer at all -- no graduation…

Song of the Day 9/2: Bowling for Soup, “1985”

By Alby September 2, 2020

Now that Antifa's secret weapon, soup, has been uncovered by ace detective Donald Trump, it's time to reveal where we got the idea: from Bowling for Soup, the Texas-based band…

Song of the Day 9/1: The Sanford-Townsend Band, “Smoke From a Distant Fire”

By Alby September 1, 20201 Comment

It's wildfire season again in California, and smoke reaching the jet stream is creating spectacular sunsets across the Midwestern and Mountain states. Some of it has even reached Delaware, which…

Song of the Day 8/31: Big Country, “In a Big Country”

By Alby August 31, 20205 Comments

Remember when this Scottish band hit the shores of our much bigger country? MTV was young and this video was in heavy rotation, boosting the song to No. 3 on…

Song of the Day 8/30: Yes, “America”

By Alby August 30, 2020

Recorded around the same time as the band's "Fragile" LP, released in 1971, their 10-minute deconstruction of the Simon and Garfunkel classic was left off the album, but surfaced the…

Song of the Day 8/28: The Beatles, “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”

By Alby August 28, 2020

The title phrase was the headline of an article in the NRA magazine The American Rifleman belonging to George Martin that John Lennon found laying around the Abbey Road studios.…

Song of the Day 8/27: Elvis Costello, “Monkey to Man”

By Alby August 27, 20203 Comments

When surveying the state of our society, I am reminded that, though humans like to put on intellectual airs, we're actually just a bunch of apes -- advanced monkeys --…

Song of the Day 8/27: Haim, “The Steps”

By Alby August 26, 20201 Comment

I'm a sucker for a guitar pop song with a good hook, and this trio of sisters from the San Fernando Valley has come up with another one for their…

Song of the Day 8/25: Justin Townes Earle, “Harlem River Blues”

By Alby August 25, 20202 Comments

Justin Townes Earle died last week at age 38 in Nashville, apparently of a drug overdose, cutting short a promising career conducted in the shadow of his famously hell-raising father,…