Posts by Alby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpr8kaczck This single was bassist/songwriter Nick Lowe's first "solo" release as well as the first single released by Stiff Records, which Lowe founded with £400 he borrowed. He played everything…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GzqOq2DY20 Let's end the week with something quiet. Mandolin Orange is a prolific duo from North Carolina. This spare ballad was released on the 2016 album "Blindfall." They'll be in…

Friday calls for kick-ass rock 'n' roll, and this is one of my go-to songs for getting revved up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVRqTUOz1Tc The Warren Zevon songs everybody knows mostly come from the…

This song sums up the way I've felt just about every morning since Nov. 9, 2016. In fact, the refrain "save me from tomorrow" hasn't lost an iota of urgency…

Most people, myself included, think this is one of Bob Dylan's greatest songs, but almost nobody would have heard it if The Band hadn't plucked it from obscurity for their…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1GvZkxRbQ Paul Simon once said this was the closest he came to an overtly political song. He wrote it shortly after Richard Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972,…