Song Of The Day For Nov. 7, 2017
Yesterday, we featured a great song written by Dan Penn and Chips Moman. Today, another great one written by the duo.Today's clip from, of all things, the Merv Griffin Show,…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 6, 2017
Not all great soul singers became famous. Which doesn't minimize their greatness. James Carr was a great soul singer. But he suffered from a bipolar disorder that led to him…
Song Of The Day: November 5, 2017
This song should be sung in front of the White House every day that Trump occupies it: Curtis Mayfield is on my Musical Mount Rushmore. This is one of the…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 4, 2017
We're finishing out the week with a Curtis Mayfield trilogy. In this second installment, Curtis and the Impressions exhort their followers to Keep On Pushing. Written in 1964, one of…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 3, 2017
My musical sweet spot is indeed the Sweet Soul Music of the 1960's and early '70's. The soundtrack to my life. To this day, I never tire of hearing those…
Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October, 2017
Just when I thought the year was winding down, just when I'd begun to shift my attention to my Best Of The Year list, along comes a month filled with…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 1, 2017
I told you this was gonna be free-association. When Paul mentioned Pink Floyd's 'Grantchester Meadows' yesterday, I immediately thought of one of my fave British folk rock songs of all…
Song Of The Day: Oct. 31, 2017
So, I'm listening to the vaguely ominous jamming, perhaps while under the influence of Jamaican herb, barely paying attention, when...well, you either know, or don't know, what comes next. A…
Song Of The Day: Oct. 30, 2017
When Walter Becker died, I sampled a lot of his and Donald Fagen's solo stuff and, of course, listened to a lot of Steely Dan. While this song was on…
Song Of The Day: Oct. 29, 2017
A great lost (IMHO) Paul Simon classic. From a not-well-received album, Hearts And Bones, released in 1983. Talia Schlanger played it on the World Cafe a couple days ago, first…
Song Of The Day: Oct. 28, 2017
A new free-association musical treat brought to you daily. I first saw Buckwheat Zydeco do this at a festival the day before I hopped a plane to a conference in…
Jazz Master Brings Creole Soul To Arden Gild Hall
No, I'm not the producer, but this Etienne Charles is damn impressive. The Guggenheim Fellow brings his 'Creole Soul' project to the Arden Gild Hall this Friday night at 8…
Happy 100th To Thelonious Sphere Monk!
He's on my musical Mount Rushmore. Perhaps Donald Fagen put it best: "The ET in my bedroom was my Thelonious Monk records." There was no one like him. Not to…