Song of the Day 4/3: Bill Withers, “Lean on Me”
Amid the COVID-19 catastrophe, deaths from other causes continue apace. Bill Withers, 81, died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, apparently unrelated to the coronavirus. Withers was a working…
Song of the Day 4/2: Adam Schlesinger and Mike Viola, “That Thing You Do”
To properly honor Adam Schlesinger, the most prolific pop tunesmith of his generation, would take a month or two of Songs of the Day. He wrote dozens for his best-known…
Song of the Day 4/1: The Arrows, “I Love Rock and Roll”
If it weren't for Joan Jett, Alan Merrill and the Arrows would be unknown in America instead of just obscure. But they were so big in Britain in the mid-'70s…
Song of the Day 3/31: Joe Diffie, “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)”
Joe Diffie, who died of the coronavirus Sunday at age 61, was a reliable Nashville hitmaker in the early '90s, placing more than a dozen songs in the Top 10…
Song of the Day 3/30: Kasey Musgraves, “Burn One With John Prine”
Kasey Musgraves says this was one of the first songs she wrote when she moved to Nashville to pursue her career in country music. It's a crowd favorite in concert,…
Coronavirus Haiku
One of my wife's Facebook groups is having a coronavirus haiku contest. These were my contributions. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Orange man tells us Ventilators…
Song of the Day 3/28: Widespread Panic, “Hope in a Hopeless World”
Listening to Trump pat himself on the back every day got you down? Here's a little pick-me-up to remind you that you can find hope in a hopeless world if…
Why Did WDEL Lay Off Allan Loudell?
Jason 330 asked, "Is the business really that hand to mouth, or is this crisis a handy pretext?" Broadcast radio has the same problem newspapers do -- it's a bygone…
Song of the Day 3/27: Bob Dylan, “Murder Most Foul”
Bob Dylan, without advance notice, dropped an original song at midnight last night, his first in eight years, along with this message: "Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude…
Watch the Ad That Has Trumpies Shitting Bricks
Diaper Donnie's campaign has sent a letter to TV stations airing this campaign ad from Priorities US not only demanding that they refuse to air it, but that their broadcasting…
Song of the Day 3/26: Bruce Cockburn, “Last Night of the World”
Another tune for your apocalypse soundtrack. Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter who's well-known in his home country but has never made much of a mark in the U.S., where…
Song of the Day 3/25: Jackson Browne, “The Pretender”
We've now entered the phase of Covid-19 in which famous people, including well-known musicians, come down with the disease. The latest, at least as of this morning, is 71-year-old singer-songwriter…
I’m So Old That…
...I can remember when Republicans invented fictional "death panels" so they could accuse Democrats of wanting to kill Grandma.