Posts by Alby

Jeff Tweedy's homage to the Stones, from Wilco's "Being There" album, released in 1996. If you listen closely, you can hear the cowbell. I'm pretty sure this is the most…

Bet you'd find a lot more people in church if all the music was as funky as this title track from Green's first gospel album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BedahXM2ifk

Groundhog Day is the least impressive of holidays, but it has the best movie associated with it. The song most associated with the movie is naturally the Sonny and Cher…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, livened up a slow news day when he was found to have not merely posed for racist photos as a medical student, but to…

Another song from the '70s that remains sadly relevant today, though I suppose Donald Fagan would have to update "I just read the Daily News" to "I just listen to…

'Memba when Dover Downs' Denis McGlynn told anyone who would listen that sports betting wouldn't make his racino profitable? According to this new Matt Bittle story quoting Captain Poormouth in…

Is there any lyricist more self-lacerating than Squeeze's Chris Difford? His typical narrator can most often be found at the pub, confessing his sins and blaming himself for yet another…

Sunday seems like the right day for this elegiac reading of the Creedence classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMtZ7DcyfQU Jonathan Clark is one of those Los Angeles professionals who's been a working musician most…

As Mike Dinsmore pointed out yesterday, 1968 was a banner year for pop and rock music. One of the most enduring songs to hit the charts that year was this…