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Song Of The Day: Aug.13, 2018
A week of train songs? How about a month? Let’s start with a week and see where this train takes us. Leadbelly as channeled through Little Richard and Fishbone kicks off our journey:
Song Of The Day: Aug. 12, 2018
Boz always had a gift for the hook. Especially a blue-eyed soul hook. We close out Boz Week with one of my faves:
Song Of The Day: Aug. 11, 2018
Boz wrote some great ones, and he knew great ones when he heard them. Like this Allen Toussaint-penned classic:
Tom Carper In His Own Words: Why He Should No Longer Be Senator
When Tom Carper ran against Bill Roth in 2000, he made age the issue while claiming that age was not the issue. Of course, age wasn’t the issue, said Carper. Energy was. Don’t believe me? Read this piece on that race from 2000. Won’t take you long to find the money quote. Here’s how Tom […]
Song Of The Day: Aug. 7, 2018
I may have posted this one before, but it’s essential. Boz, with Duane ‘Skydog’ Allman on guitar and a band of Muscle Shoals aces, giving the defining performance of Fenton Robinson’s ‘Loan Me A Dime’:
Song Of The Day: Aug. 6, 2018
Boz Scaggs is 75 years old. He deserves his own week. Don’t worry, kids, none of that smooth dance floor stuff. Let’s start with one he both wrote and sang while he was with the Steve Miller Band back in the day:
Song Of the Day: Aug. 5, 2018
This band defines the term ‘one-hit wonder’. More on The Castaways here.
Most Intriguing Delaware Primaries: RD 5
This is the district that was specifically drawn for Melanie George, now Melanie George Smith. The 2012 version retains most of the barbell-ian characteristics of the original 2002 incarnation and stretches from Bear to New Castle. It was part of a deal that D leadership, specifically Bob Gilligan, cut with the R’s who controlled the […]
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