Category: Music
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Sunday Afternoon at the Oldies: Bluegrass
Here. HT: Ingvarius Maximus the Alhambran.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Suicides
First a positive note: A Dylan biopic is coming, A Complete Unknown. ………………………… Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover), December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990, known prmarily for his Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit, Runaway, 1961. "Suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide on February 8, 1990, with a .22-caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California, while on…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Songs of Freedom and Liberty
Metallica, Don't Tread on Me Rascals, People Got to Be Free Tom Petty, I Won't Back Down Johnny Cash, I Won't Back Down Merle Haggard, The Fightin' Side of Me The Who, Going Mobile Richie Havens, Freedom Cream, I Feel Free The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Arlo Guthrie, City of New Orleans Highwaymen, City of New Orleans My Country 'tis…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some ‘Song’ Songs
Mose Allison, The Song is Ended Punch Bros., Dink's Song Dave van Ronk, Dink's Song Arlo Guthrie, Percy's Song Fairport Convention, Percy's Song Doors, Alabama Song Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly with his Song Bob Dylan, Song to Woody Chad and Jeremy, Summer Song Simon and Garfunkel, 59th Street Bridge Song Brook Benton, The Boll Weevil Song Rupert Holmes, The Pina Colada Song
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gone but not Forgotten
As a sort of intro, The Who, My Generation. "I hope I die before I get old." My English readers will enjoy the video. Charlie Watts at 80, 1941-2021. Rolling Stones, Sittin' on a Fence. A lovely tune. Trigger warning! Under My Thumb. Eerily appropriate these days: Gimme Shelter Don Everly at 84, 1937-2021. When Will I Be Loved?…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Solitary, Alone, Lonely, Lonesome
Neil Diamond, Solitary Man. Johnny Cash does it better. Nothing better than the sound of an acoustic guitar, well-made, well-played, steel-stringed, with fresh strings. This one goes out to Dave Bagwill. Calexico, Alone Again Or. Original (1967) by Love, an underrated '60s psychedelic band. Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely Bob Dylan, I am a Lonesome Hobo Stay free from petty…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Forgotten and Unforgotten Folkies
Paul Clayton, Wild Mountain Thyme. Baez version from the "Farewell, Angelina" album. A snippet of the same song by Dylan and Baez with a beaming Albert Grossmann looking on. And while we're at it, here is Joan with Farewell, Angelina. Beautiful as it is, it doesn't touch the magical quality of Dylan's own version which is in a dimension by itself. Paul Clayton,…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Varia
I have only recently come to appreciate what a great song this Jackson Browne number from 1976 is. After the 'sixties faded, I gave myself an education in classical and jazz and lost touch with the rock scene. The video presents the thoughtful lyrics. The Gary U. S. Bonds cover from 1981 is also unbelievably good. The Weight. Robertson…
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Dylan Turns 83
Scott Johnson of Powerline offers a couple of thoughtful retrospective pieces. Not Dark Yet Chimes of Freedom Can one get tired of Dylan? That would be like getting tired of America. It would be like getting to the point where no passage in Kerouac brings a tingle to the spine or a tear to the…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cool Tunes and More Mose
Brian Bosse, musically literate, and a musician himself, tells me that he's never heard of Mose Allison. In furtherance of Brian's education, I link to some Allison tunes below. Ramsey Lewis Trio, The In Crowd Dave Brubeck, Take Five Corsairs, Smoky Places Harry Nilsson, Everybody's Talkin' B. B. King, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Weather Conditions
Earl Scruggs and Friends, Foggy Mountain Breakdown Ella Fitzgerald, Misty. Beats the Johnny Mathis version. A standard from the Great American Songbook. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. Not from the Great American Songbook. And presumably not about weather conditions. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky? Or: 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy? Cream, Sunshine of Your Love Tom Waits, Emotional Weather…
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On this Date in 1970
Kent State Shootings. Comparison with current campus unrest. Neil Young's Ohio.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Road Tunes
This life is a via dolorosa through a vale of ambiguity. We trudge along veiled in ignorance of the ultimate whence, whither, and wherefore. But the way is not wholly dolorous and unmarked. There are some stunning vistas, exalted moments, intimations of Elsewhere, glimpses and vouchsafings, cloud-partings, fog-liftings, pointers and prospects. We live by faith…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Lawrence Auster on Bob Dylan
I was surprised, but pleased, to find that the late Lawrence Auster, traditionalist conservative, photo above, 1973, had a deep appreciation and a wide-ranging knowledge of Dylan's art. Born in 1949, Auster is generationally situated for that appreciation, and as late as '73 was still flying the '60s colors, if we can go by the…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Burdens, Loads, Weights, and Weltschmerz
Rolling Stones, Beast of Burden Jackson Browne, The Load Out The Band, The Weight To sully this great song with a reference to Fani Willis would be criminal. Allman Bros., Not My Cross to Bear ZZ Top, Got Me Under Pressure Jeff Beck and ZZ Top, Sixteen Tons Tom Waits, Shiver Me Timbers. The clue to the meaning of this…