Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 4/5: Broadway Cast of “Assassins,” “Everybody’s Got the Right”
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Song of the Day 4/3: Bill Withers, “Lean on Me”
Amid the COVID-19 catastrophe, deaths from other causes continue apace. Bill Withers, 81, died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, apparently unrelated to the coronavirus. Withers was a working stiff who rose to sudden stardom in 1971 when”Ain’t No Sunshine,” the B-side to his first single, stormed up the singles charts. His string of […]
Song of the Day 4/2: Adam Schlesinger and Mike Viola, “That Thing You Do”
To properly honor Adam Schlesinger, the most prolific pop tunesmith of his generation, would take a month or two of Songs of the Day. He wrote dozens for his best-known project, Fountains of Wayne, which he co-founded with college friend Chris Collingwood, but that was just one facet of his brilliance. He had another band, […]
Song of the Day 4/1: The Arrows, “I Love Rock and Roll”
If it weren’t for Joan Jett, Alan Merrill and the Arrows would be unknown in America instead of just obscure. But they were so big in Britain in the mid-’70s they hosted their own TV show, which is where this clip comes from. The song wasn’t a hit for them — it was only released […]
Song of the Day 3/31: Joe Diffie, “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)”
Joe Diffie, who died of the coronavirus Sunday at age 61, was a reliable Nashville hitmaker in the early ’90s, placing more than a dozen songs in the Top 10 of the country charts; five of them went to No. 1. This one featured a video that owes a lot to “Weekend at Bernie’s,” and […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: March 2020
How’zabout we stream some great tunes while keeping our physical distance? Sounds good to me. Betcha some of them sound good to you: Musta’ missed this one last year. Correcting that error… If we ever get back to doing concerts at the Gild Hall, this guy will be on my short list of artists I […]
Song of the Day 3/30: Kasey Musgraves, “Burn One With John Prine”
Kasey Musgraves says this was one of the first songs she wrote when she moved to Nashville to pursue her career in country music. It’s a crowd favorite in concert, but she’s never officially released it and the chances of her doing so decreased when she recycled the couplet about piercing her nose in another […]
Song of the Day 3/28: Widespread Panic, “Hope in a Hopeless World”
Listening to Trump pat himself on the back every day got you down? Here’s a little pick-me-up to remind you that you can find hope in a hopeless world if you know where to look. Jam band Widespread Panic recorded this in 1997. The song was co-written by Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter Phil Roy during a period […]
Song of the Day 3/27: Bob Dylan, “Murder Most Foul”
Bob Dylan, without advance notice, dropped an original song at midnight last night, his first in eight years, along with this message: “Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay […]
Song of the Day 3/26: Bruce Cockburn, “Last Night of the World”
Another tune for your apocalypse soundtrack. Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter who’s well-known in his home country but has never made much of a mark in the U.S., where the only charting single in his 40+-year career was “Wondering Where the Lions Are” back in 1979. This song was released 20 years later, on […]
Song of the Day 3/25: Jackson Browne, “The Pretender”
We’ve now entered the phase of Covid-19 in which famous people, including well-known musicians, come down with the disease. The latest, at least as of this morning, is 71-year-old singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who told Rolling Stone that he’s quarantined at home and that his symptoms are relatively mild. Browne’s heyday, though not his commercial peak, […]
Song of the Day 3/24: Moby Grape, “Hey Grandma”
Now that some Fox News talking heads, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and various other sociopaths on TV and the interwebs — including the Orangutan in the Oval Office — have floated the idea of letting all Americans get infected with Covid-19 to save Our Lord The Economy, I thought it might be time to […]
Song of the Day 3/23: Warren Zevon, “Don’t Let Us Get Sick”
Can’t think of a more appropriate song for our current crisis. Warren Zevon wrote and recorded this before he knew he had the mesothelioma that would kill him just a few years later. It was released on “Life’ll Kill Ya” in 2000. He died in 2003. Don’t let us get sick Don’t let us get […]
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