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Song of the Day 11/27: Hall & Oates, “Possession Obsession”
We now know what Daryl Hall’s lawsuit against John Oates is about: Oates wants to sell his half of their catalog and Hall sued to stop it. A chancery court judge in Nashville put the sale on hold. While some legendary musicians have made headlines by selling their publishing rights for nine-figure sums, Hall and […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 27, 2023
There’s a nasty civil war going in in Sudan, where the ethnic Arabs are slaughtering the ethnic Africans in what looks an awful lot like genocide.. Nobody elsewhere seems to be protest marching for or against either side. I’m not sure, but I think there might be a First World bias in our media. There’s […]
Song of the Day 11/25: 39 Steps, “Slip Into the Crowd”
Somebody put Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” on the TV on Thanksgiving – the multi-year plot contains two big Thanksgiving scenes – and I got to hear the song that gave an obscure band its 15 minutes of fame. There’s a scene about halfway through the movie when the characters played by Woody Allen […]
Song of the Day 11/24: Graham Parker and the Rumour, “Lady Doctor”
I’ll take any excuse for playing Graham Parker’s blue-eyed soul, so here’s one for Dr. Bethany Hall Long. From his 1976 debut album, “Howlin’ Wind.” Parker released a new album in September with his new backing band, the Goldtops. He still has a feel for the soulful tune.
Song of the Day 11/23: Mary Gauthier, “Thanksgiving”
Just in case you’re not feeling all that thankful today, Mary Gauthier’s song about visiting prison on the holiday will remind you that some people have it much worse. Unlike a lot of songs like this, she doesn’t lay on the schmaltz, and the sentiment she shares was hard-won – she spent her 18th birthday […]
Song of the Day 11/22: Daryl Hall and John Oates, “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”
Here’s the proof that we’re living in the most contentious times since the Civil War: Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The lawsuit, filed in Nashville, is sealed, so we don’t know what it’s about. But that link to Philadelphia magazine includes an embedded video of an interview Hall did with Bill Maher last year, […]
Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023
Today’s Thanksgiving prep – stuffing, or more properly dressing, since we don’t actually put it inside the bird. We always have three different kinds – traditional, cornbread with oysters, and sausage with fennel and wild rice. We make so much dressing we don’t actually need a turkey. It’s not Thanksgiving tomorrow anywhere but the United […]
Open Thread Tuesday Nov. 21, 2023
Short one today with Thanksgiving prep on tap. Today: Pies – pumpkin, apple and pecan. Republicans should spend more time baking pies instead of thinking of ways to make life as miserable for the rest of us as it is for them. Elon Musk, who wants to play Nazi and not get called out for […]
Song of the Day 11/20: The Afghan Whigs, “I Know Your Little Secret”
Bethany Hall Long’s secrets don’t seem all that secret at this point. She might as well face the music. The Afghan Whigs, the vehicle for frontman and songwriter Greg Dulli, formed in Cincinnati around the time the grunge movement was getting started in Seattle, and in 1989 they were signed by Sub-Pop, the label that […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 20, 2023
President Jimmy Carter’s wife Rosalynn died at yesterday at 96, two days after entering hospice care, with her husband of 77 years by her side. Their marriage lasted as long as the average American lives. Every Trump mouthfart gets wall-to-wall coverage – I suppose tweets are fingerfarts, but those get the same constant attention – […]
Buy Weed? Can’t They Just Drink Instead?
The Atlantic coast is supposedly the liberal part of Sussex County. So why are its beach towns treating cannabis sales like a pool hall coming to River City? As a News Journal article noted last week, Dewey, Rehoboth, Bethany, Ocean View and Fenwick Island all have banned the legal sale of the devil’s lettuce. You […]
Song of the Day 11/18: John Fred and His Playboy Band, “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)”
Hard to believe it took this long, but it appears the George Santos saga is reaching its denouement. The guy who makes Donald Trump’s lying seem timid seems to have gotten his money from the family of an influential Miami lawyer, and the results of a House Ethics Committee investigation are so damning that it […]
Song of the Day 11/17: Brass Construction, “Movin'”
A little bit of Friday funk for Ruth Briggs King, who quit the General Assembly this week, effective immediately, because she moved into a new home just outside the district she represents. Credit where it’s due: Many’s the lawmaker who might try to finesse the rules to stay in office. Brass Construction was a Brooklyn-based […]
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