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Friday Night Music

Tracy Chapman. You can’t beat the video and audio quality on this one. Fast Car

Friday Night Music

These two songs have, so far as I can see, nothing much in common, though they were only one degree of separation in the youtube stream of consciousness. One of the truly great rock songs, truly unintelligible at any speed. This one occurred to me last week. It illustrates something about rock music in the […]

Friday Night Music

A mini concert somewhat suggested by Teddy Kennedy’s passing. I think for a lot of us who lived through the turbulent sixties, his death brings back memories of former years and former Kennedys. First choice is obvious I guess. Dion singing Abraham, Martin and John. I guess now Teddy’s on that hill, though we can […]

Friday Night Music-The Drifters

Well, there hasn’t been all that much sun, but as I’m sitting here right now I can honestly say it’s sticky enough to make this song appropriate for the season. This is going up early today, since I may not have an opportunity to post it tonight. A great song.

Friday Night Music-New Riders of the Purple Sage

I’m not sure I want to make a habit out of this. Old rock stars, whether of the top or second tier, are dropping off with some regularity, so this feature could start to resemble the obituaries. John “Marmaduke” Dawson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage died recently, so it seemed appropriate to […]

Friday Night Music-Double Header

My younger son is visiting this weekend, and I asked him to recommend some music for tonight. These videos don’t quite qualify under my usual guidelines, as neither are live performances, but rules are for breaking, or at least bending. Rather than choose between his suggestions, I’m posting both. Yo La Tengo: And Pearl Jam

Friday Night Music-The Dead

The consensus at our last Drinking Liberally was that I had never posted any videos of The Grateful Dead, a grievous oversight which I shall try to rectify today. In truth, for reasons I cannot explain, I never listened to the Dead when I was young. I never owned one of their albums, never went […]

Friday Night Music-4th of July Special

I got a number of good ideas for this feature last night at Drinking Liberally, but I’m deferring them for now. This being 4th of July weekend, it seemed only right to try to rustle up some unobjectionable patriotic music. A harder task than you might think, but I’ve found a few and I’ve decided […]

Friday Night Music

Who else, given yesterday’s events? It’s actually hard to find good stuff on Michael Jackson. Embedding is disabled on all the music videos. There’s some concert footage from after he went totally off the deep end, or over the top, whichever you prefer. It also goes without saying that the no lip sync rule goes […]

Friday Night Music-Marvin Gaye

As best as I can determine, I haven’t posted Marvin before. I can’t imagine why.