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Friday Night Music-Don McLean

Friday, January 23, 2009

One of the weirder moments in the Inaugural concert was Garth Brooks singing “American Pie”. He chose to stick to the chorus and didn’t sing the verses. It’s an odd song, to say the least, to sing at a concert that is delivering a message of hope and optimism. The song does neither. It reminds […]

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Sunday night music special

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen and a cast of thousands: I’ve always thought the Democrats should have closed their convention with Pete and assorted others singing this song. This is even better, and he sings all the verses. UPDATE: Too good to be true. Josh Marshall says it well: As most of you likely know, […]

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Friday Night Music-Los Lobos

Friday, January 9, 2009

Once again, thanks to a reader/Liberal Drinker, who suggested this performance. A great band.

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Friday Night Music-Mavis Staples

Friday, January 2, 2009

Thanks to a reader for this suggestion, as well as a few more that I’m keeping in reserve. I never heard of this lady before, but I enjoyed this song.

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Friday Night Music-The White Stripes

Friday, December 26, 2008

Both of my sons are here for the Holidays, and I asked the younger, a former college radio music director, to recommend a music video for tonight. My thinking was that he could recommend something of which I was unaware, and which might broaden my horizons and those of the folks who read this blog. […]

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Friday Night Christmas Music

Friday, December 19, 2008

Well, what else could you expect the Friday before Christmas? The following song is on my Ipod Christmas playlist. It seemed like a good choice. Unfortunately, I had a choice between a video with poor quality audio that wasn’t so obviously lip synced, or one with better audio but bad lip syncing. I decided to […]

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Friday Night Music-Velvet Underground

Friday, December 12, 2008

I’m sort of coming to the end of my rope here. The unofficial rule is that I can’t repeat any particular band. I don’t think I’ve done the Velvet Underground, which, if so, is an unforgivable omission, since they were one of the seminal rock and roll bands. Oddly enough, I thought of them at […]

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Have yourself a very broccoli Christmas

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

People are amazing.

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Friday Night Music-Paul Simon.

Friday, November 28, 2008

I perused the archives, and I see that though I’ve put up a couple of Simon and Garfunkels, I’ve never put up Simon all by his lonesome. I think this is one of his best, and I’m guessing he agrees, as he featured this decades old song on his recent appearance on Colbert. This clip […]

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Arlo

Thursday, November 27, 2008

My wife and I split up the Thanksgiving duties. She prepares most of the food (though I make a mean onion soup, for the first course). I do the dishes. Since we have no dishwasher, it’s a formidable job, usually lasting just shy of two hours. So I actually do pull my weight. Tradition is […]

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