{"id":301,"date":"2025-02-08T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-good-tunes-from-the-70s\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:55:35","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-good-tunes-from-the-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-good-tunes-from-the-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Good Tunes from the ’70s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The '60s rule, of  course, since no decade in Anglospheric popular music was richer or more creative.  I say Anglospheric because great stuff came out of the U. K., Canada, and Australia. I don't know about New Zealand. But let's not ignore the cream of the '70s.  Full enjoyment of course requires proper synaptic lubrication. I'm having me a Jack and Coke this Saturday night. Just one. A generous shot of whisky is good; ten shots is not ten times better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson Browne, The Pretender<\/a>.  This great song  goes out to Darci M who introduced me to Jackson Browne. Darci was Lithuanian, and it's a good bet she still is. Her mother told her, "Never bring an Italian home." So I never did meet the old lady. I  encountered no anti-Italian prejudice on the West coast whence I hail; the East is a different story. The closer to Europe, the closer to Old World prejudice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Running on Empty<\/a>. A great road song. There's nothing like the open road of the American West. Big sky, lambent light, broad vistas, buttes and mesas, railroads running, truckers trucking, ballin' the jack<\/a> one more time to the End of the Line<\/a>. Get out there and see it before it's gone or you are too old, one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gerry Rafferty, Right Down the Line<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Baker Str<\/a>eet<\/a>. This was a big hit in the summer of '78. This one goes out to Charaine H and our road trip that summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Mason, Only You Know and I Know<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We Just Disagree<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

All Along the Watchtower<\/a> (2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Buchanan, Sweet Dreams<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Patsy Cline, Sweet Dreams<\/a> (1963) <\/span><\/p>\n

Written by Don Gibson<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Orleans, Dance with Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Still the One<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abba, Fernando<\/a>. I first heard this in Ben's Gasthaus, Zaehringen, Freiburg im Breisgau ,' 76-'77.  This one goes out to Rudolf, Helmut, Martin, Hans, und Herrmann, working class Germans who loved to drink the Ami under the table.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The '60s rule, of  course, since no decade in Anglospheric popular music was richer or more creative.  I say Anglospheric because great stuff came out of the U. K., Canada, and Australia. I don't know about New Zealand. But let's not ignore the cream of the '70s.  Full enjoyment of course requires proper synaptic lubrication. … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Good Tunes from the ’70s”<\/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-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}