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Song of the Day 5/5: Trout Fishing in America, “Pico de Gallo”

By Alby May 5, 20192 Comments

I chose this song for today because it mentions Cinco de Mayo, but I was just looking for an excuse. I've loved it ever since I heard it on WXPN's…

Song of the Day 5/4: Pete Seeger, “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

By Alby May 4, 20192 Comments

H/t to RE Vanella, who pointed out that yesterday would have been Pete Seeger's 100th birthday. In addition to playing a key role in the 20th century folk music revival,…

Song of the Day 5/3: Johnny Winter And, “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo”

By Alby May 3, 20197 Comments

Everybody knows the various Rick Derringer versions of his rock standard, but its first appearance on vinyl (that's all we had back then, kids) came on "Johnny Winter And," the…

Song of the Day 5/2: Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth/Mr. Soul”

By Alby May 2, 20191 Comment

Back in the '60s it took a long time for the older generation to realize that rock and roll was, as the saying goes, here to stay. As late as…

Song of the Day 5/1: The Hold Steady, “Sequestered in Memphis”

By Alby May 1, 20191 Comment

In El Somnambulo's roundup of his favorite tunes from April, he wondered if Craig Finn was the Raymond Carver of songwriters. I'm not sure about that. I might go with…

Song of the Day 4/30: The Click Five, “Just the Girl”

By Alby April 30, 20191 Comment

The Click Five was a power pop band founded in the mid-aughts in Boston, where most of them attended the Berklee School of Music. They scored a hit right out…

Song of the Day 4/29: Wildwood Kin, “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution”

By Alby April 29, 20198 Comments

I love covers that expand the original. I love harmonizing girl groups. And I love Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" as deconstructed and re-imagined by British indie folk-pop trio…

This, Exactly

By Alby April 28, 20196 Comments

David Akadjian's post at Daily Kos splits the arrow in the bull's eye with this explanation of why Democrats might as well do the right thing instead of looking for…

Song of the Day 4/28: The Wood Brothers, “I Got Loaded”

By Alby April 28, 20193 Comments

Another video by the New Orleans outfit that put musicians in the back of mule-drawn carriages in the French Quarter for acoustic sets on wheels. This time it's the Wood…

Song of the Day 4/27: Hurray for the Riff Raff, “Look Out Mama”

By Alby April 27, 20193 Comments

I don't know what Our Man in New Orleans has on his agenda, but he'd be a fool to pass up a chance to see this homegrown Crescent City band…

Grassley Makes Carper Look Spry

By Alby April 26, 20191 Comment

Delaware's Tom Carper isn't the only doddering old geezer blocking up the halls of the Senate. Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley showed what happens when an aged, out-of-touch political lifer holds…

Song of the Day 4/26: Van Morrison, “Real Real Gone”

By Alby April 26, 20191 Comment

This is Van Morrison's best soul rave-up since "Jackie Wilson Says." It was originally recorded in 1980 but wasn't released until Van re-recorded it for 1990's "Enlightenment." At this tempo…

Song of the Day 4/25: Buddy Holly, “Oh, Boy!”

By Alby April 25, 20196 Comments

I was reading about Ed Sullivan the other day and came across a tidbit I never heard before. I knew the legendary variety show host was known for holding grudges…