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Delaware GOP No Longer Has An AG Candidate

By El Somnambulo August 13, 20186 Comments

Not surprising since I doubt that anyone can remember they had an AG candidate. For the record, her name is/was Peggy Marshall Thomas. In announcing that she was dropping out, …

Song Of The Day: Aug.13, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 13, 20188 Comments

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…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 12, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 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

By El Somnambulo August 11, 2018

Boz wrote some great ones, and he knew great ones when he heard them. Like this Allen Toussaint-penned classic:

Song Of The Day: Aug. 10, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 10, 2018

Boz, rockin' out:

Tom Carper In His Own Words: Why He Should No Longer Be Senator

By El Somnambulo August 10, 20186 Comments

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.…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 9, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 9, 2018

Boz sure knows his way around a jump blues:

Song Of The Day: Aug. 8, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 8, 20181 Comment

Boz, capturing a good-timey SF vibe. And that band...:

Song Of The Day: Aug. 7, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 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…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 6, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 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…

Song Of the Day: Aug. 5, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 5, 2018

This band defines the term 'one-hit wonder'. More on The Castaways here.

Song Of The Day: Aug. 4, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 4, 20182 Comments

Best non-Beatles Beatles song ever?:

Most Intriguing Delaware Primaries: RD 5

By El Somnambulo August 3, 201837 Comments

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…