Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 1/4: Coven, “One Tin Soldier”
Unless you grew up in the ’60s, it’s hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays music venues are frequent targets for mass violence, from the Pulse nightclub to the Las Vegas country music festival to the Nova music festival in […]
Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”
T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in the ’70s – and started a solo career that saw him release albums in musical styles ranging from New Wave to country. This song […]
Song of the Day 1/2: Green Day, “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America’s politico-cultural wars on New Year’s Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band’s signature song, “American Idiot,” by proclaiming, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” MAGAts reacted predictably, but they shouldn’t have been surprised. The song was written […]
Song of the Day 1/1: Uptown String Band, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”
The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it’s much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn’t air on WPHL-17 anymore (you can livestream it, though). As critics note in this Philadelphia Inquirer article, the parade has roots in minstrelsy, and a […]
Song of the Day 12/31: Ella Fitzgerald, “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
We apparently have the Romans to thank for the annual night of bacchanalia that accompanies the final hours of the waning year. But it’s German folklore, which held that how you rang in midnight determined your luck for the coming year, that made the midnight kiss a tradition. That’s why New Year’s Eve is, after […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: The Top 10!!
But, first, for those of you who want to gorge yourselves on the Top 50 all at once, here’s a handy recap: ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 50-41 ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 40-31 ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 30-21: ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 20-11 OK, let’s put a […]
Song of the Day 12/29: Matthew Sabatella & The Rambling String Band, “The Battle Cry of Freedom”
Nikki Haley’s answer to the trick question “What caused the Civil War?” has caused her no end of grief in much of the country, but should sound familiar to anyone educated in the South. Public schools there might not call it the War of Northern Aggression anymore, but I’ll bet a lot of the home […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 20-11
20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. My favorite match of song and video this year. A little tab’ll do ya’: 11.
Song of the Day 12/28: The Smothers Brothers, “Boil That Cabbage Down”
Tom Smothers, the comic half of the squabbling Smothers Brothers, died Tuesday at age 86. Though they’ll always be remembered for having their top-rated variety show axed by CBS in 1969 for its criticism of the war in Vietnam, I remember them more for bringing some levity to audiences years earlier, during the Great Folk […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 40-31
40. ‘You don’t like me then, you won’t like me now.’ 39. 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31.
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 50-41
This could be the best list I’ve ever put together. Not b/c the tunes were necessarily better this year, but because I listened to the tunes without the videos, and wasn’t influenced by a great video perhaps elevating a not-so-great song onto the list. I started out with 118 songs before gradually whittling them down […]
Song of the Day 12/25: Top 10 Most-Viewed Christmas Songs of the Day
According to one of those sketchy “favorite (noun) of every state” lists, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the most popular Christmas song in Delaware. Well, maybe, but not here at Delaware Liberal. I’ve been running the 12 Days and Only 12 Days of Christmas Music for five years now, and […]
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