Song of the Day 11/4: Alice Cooper, “Elected”
This one is for all the people who were elected yesterday, a list that does not yet include a president. Though the song appeared Alice Cooper's 1973's "Billion Dollar Babies"…
Song of the Day 11/3: The Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today”
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How much more cowbell could a song have? None. None more cowbell. The Chambers Brothers were unlikely pioneers of what became known as psychedelic soul, first recording this trippy classic…
Song of the Day 11/2: Rare Earth, “Get Ready”
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Rare Earth earned its footnote in rock history as Motown's first successful white act, but naturally the band, founded in Detroit in 1961 as the Sunliners, scored its first and…
Song of the Day 11/1: Lindsey Buckingham, “Countdown”
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The first time he left Rock's Longest Running Soap Opera, in 1987, it took Lindsey Buckingham five years to put together a solo album. "Out of the Cradle" was actually…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes For October 2020
My kind of month--music that starts out interesting, and ends up fascinating. Plus songs for this dire season. A national treasure. A great song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7B2mP4g8U Fuckin' Portland Cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23ewhFf_hs https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6386UwAdKaFY0c6WfQ7OSK?si=aQXf4raMTkiE9O4rM9I1FQ…
Song of the Day 10/31: Al Kooper and Stephen Stills, “Season of the Witch”
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Donovan wrote and recorded this song in 1966, after guitarist John Renbourn of Pentangle showed him how to play a D9 chord at a house party. People who were there…
Song of the Day 10/30: The Traveling Wilburys, “End of the Line”
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This one's for the Trump administration and the entire Republican Party, which is indeed facing the end of the line. The Traveling Wilburys were rock history's most peculiar supergroup --…
Song of the Day 10/29: Blind Faith, “Can’t Find My Way Home”
This one's for all the poor saps at Trump's Omaha rally the other night who got stranded miles from shelter in freezing temperatures when their buses didn't show up. Apparently,…
Song of the Day 10/28: The Moody Blues, “Go Now”
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As the days until the election dwindle, I find this tune going through my head -- the "since you gotta go, you better go now" part, not the "I don't…
Song of the Day 10/27: Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”
These are strange times in America, and not just because one of our political parties has gone full fascist. We live in a country where a 42-year-old song can re-enter…
Song of the Day 10/26: The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army”
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It's been an awful year all over the world, which might help explain why a woman confronted Edinburgh, Scotland, street musician Matt Grant last week by grabbing his guitar from…
Song of the Day 10/25: Jerry Jeff Walker, “Mr. Bojangles”
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It almost has the certainty of scientific law: Any hell-raising musician will reach his commercial peak with a song that's slow and sentimental. It certainly proved to be the case…
Song of the Day 10/23: The Spencer Davis Group, “Gimme Some Lovin'”
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Note: This is a guest post by Nathan Arizona. Spencer Davis, who died this week at 81, was one of the most important pioneers of British electric blues-rock and the…