Arts and Entertainment

The Ballad Of Booth from 'Assassins'. If you ever get a chance to see this show, go. You won't soon forget it.  Victor Garber, unbleepingbelievable:

Nobody does Sondheim like Bernadette Peters.  This song is from "Merrily We Roll Along", initially a flop that featured a great Sondheim score, one of his greatest in fact.  The…

Hey, it's my Birthday Week, and I'm gonna celebrate it with some Stephen Sondheim.  He's on my Musical Mount Rushmore.  I've perhaps spent more time listening to Sondheim than any…

This one's for Alby.  Reminds me of 'Blinded By the Light':

They put the 'psycho' in psychobilly. Ladeez & Gentlemen, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy and the Cramps:

Betcha there ain't a whole 'nother political blog anywhere featuring this song today. Uh, not that there should be:  

Hasil Adkins, folks. Remember that name. Rockabilly don't get no weirder than ol' Hasil from Boone County, WV.  Hasil (pronounced Hassel) invented psychobilly back in the '50's.  He didn't call…

We take a baby-step towards rockabilly weirdness today.  The screams in the background are from the drummer, who wanted his mom to hear him on the record. BTW, Bamboozer? We…

Somebody suggested Rockabilly Week.  Welcome to Rockabilly Week.  We'll start the week off with a couple of the classics, and then it's off to Weirdoville. A year later, another performer…

Harvey Schmidt died this week. Who? Along with lyricist Tom Jones (not that Tom Jones), Schmidt was a composer for several musical theatre productions, including The Fantasticks, the longest-running show…

Used to play this for my daughter when she was little.  She'd jump around to it. Called it 'jumping music'. It sure was. Still is. Doesn't hurt that the 'little…

Hey, guys, it's not my fault that the vast majority of tunes this month are from female artists.  Up your game, and I'll feature you. Afraid of a little competition?…

Big Joe Turner got jazz immortal Coleman Hawkins and several of Count Basie's top players into the studio for this album.  Big Joe was one of the really important, but…