{"id":19,"date":"2025-08-23T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-solitary-alone-lonely-lonesome\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:15:42","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-solitary-alone-lonely-lonesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-solitary-alone-lonely-lonesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Solitary, Alone, Lonely, Lonesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Diamond, Solitary Man<\/a>.  His first song, his best song. The only one of his I really like. Johnny Cash does it better<\/a>.  There is 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, Oregon luthier. <\/span><\/p>\n

Calexico, Alone Again Or.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Original<\/a> (1967) by Love, an underrated '60s psychedelic band.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Roy's last recorded tune: You Got It<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, I am a Lonesome Hobo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stay free from petty jealousy<\/span>
Live by no man's code<\/span>
Save your judgment for yourself<\/span>
Lest you wind up on this road.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bob Dylan, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll<\/a>.  Young Bob from his topical days. Whatever happened to William Zantzinger?  Well, he died at 69 in 2009.  NYT obituary here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of bonus cuts for a NYC friend:<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovin' Spoonful, Summer in the City<\/a>. Great song, great video.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barrett Strong, Money<\/a> (1959)  There won't be much left there after madman Mandami, the Islamo-Commie, become mayor. New Yorkers have shown themselves stupid enough to vote for the worthless and incompetent. The smart money is already heading south.  Florida has a great governor in Ron DeSantis, unlike the incompetent leftards 'governing' California and New York, Newsom and Hochul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neil Diamond, Solitary Man.  His first song, his best song. The only one of his I really like. Johnny Cash does it better.  There is 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, Oregon luthier.  Calexico, Alone Again Or.  Original (1967) by Love, an … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Solitary, Alone, Lonely, Lonesome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}