Arts and Entertainment – Page 97

Song of the Day 9/29: Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)”

By Alby September 29, 20221 Comment

I know people in Naples, Fla. I feel even sorrier for them than usual today. Most blues songs about high water trace back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927,…

Song of the Day 9/28: Michael Martin Murphey, “Geronimo’s Cadillac”

By Alby September 28, 2022

As the link in today's open thread illustrates, we never do right by native Americans, even though we've admitted the injustices for a long time now. For example, it was…

Song of the Day 9/27: The Beatles, “Back in the USSR”

By Alby September 27, 20221 Comment

One one level it's just a parody of American exceptionalism as espoused by Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys. But it doesn't seem so funny when Russia flexes its military…

Song of the Day 9/26: Paul McCartney, “My Brave Face”

By Alby September 26, 20221 Comment

Paul McCartney scored a couple of big hits in the '80s with other artists, but his duets with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson weren't musical collaborations. McCartney wrote "Ebony and…

‘Attend The Tale’: First Draft Complete!

By El Somnambulo September 26, 20227 Comments

"Attend the Tale of Speaker Pete His fall from grace is well nigh complete His cargo shorts and his sun-baked pate Did nothing to save Speaker Pete from his fate…

Song of the Day 9/25: The Righteous Brothers, “Unchained Melody”

By Alby September 25, 20225 Comments

According to its publisher, this song has been recorded more than 1,500 times by nearly 700 different artists. Most listeners agree that Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers sang the…

Song of the Day 9/23: Modern English, “I Melt With You”

By Alby September 23, 2022

Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons to bail himself out of the war he needlessly started. That strikes me as similar to a man who's freezing to death…

Song of the Day 9/22: Warren Zevon, “A Certain Girl”

By Alby September 22, 2022

This Allen Toussaint oldie is for my friend Jonny, who's crushing on a co-worker who's already got a boyfriend. Warren Zevon recorded it for the 1980 LP "Bad Luck Streak…

Song of the Day 9/21: Blondie, “One Way or Another”

By Alby September 21, 20226 Comments

Trump got his special master. Now will the special master get him? Donnie Two Scoops is more slippery than an eel -- uglier, too. But one way or another... Debbie…

Song of the Day 9/20: Freddy Fender, “Across the Borderline”

By Alby September 20, 2022

Operation Immigrant Dump needed Donald Trump to steal the idea from '60s Southern racists, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to put it into practice, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to fuck…

Song of the Day 9/19: Elton John, “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”

By Alby September 19, 2022

Though Queen Elizabeth remains dead, Britain's almost endless period of mourning -- even our British friends said yesterday that enough was enough -- will come to a close today with…

Song of the Day 9/18: The James Gang, “Funk #49”

By Alby September 18, 20222 Comments

If you weren't a fan of the Foo Fighters you probably never heard of Taylor Hawkins before he died in March at age 50. But you've definitely heard of some…

Song of the Day 9/16: King Harvest, “Dancing in the Moonlight”

By Alby September 16, 20224 Comments

Connoisseurs of yacht rock trace the roots of the retroactively-defined genre to the Southern California soft-rock boom of the mid-'70s, so this song is technically a precursor. No matter. One-hit…