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Friday Night Music

I suppose there are some that might call this a bit schmaltzy, but I think it’s a great song, and John Denver tended to be underrated. He and Mama Cass team up here to sing at an event encouraging young people to register to vote, and what she has to say sounds pretty timely, except […]

Friday Night Music

For several years I posted a music video every Friday. The rules were that it had to be something I liked, and it had to be a non lip synced actual concert version. After a while I stopped, because, quite frankly, it was getting harder and harder to find good stuff that I hadn’t put […]

Friday Night Music Returns!

This used to be a regular feature, but it got harder and harder to find music that I 1) was familiar with and liked, and 2) was a live performance and not just music with an album cover as the video. Anyway, I doubt that I’ll be doing this every week, but today, while I […]

Trump’s Foreign Policy

I’m a big Randy Newman fan, but inasmuch as Trump tends to go with the last thing he’s heard, it might not be a good idea for him to listen to this one. On the other hand, given the thumbs up so many of pundits (looking at you, Fareed) gave him for bombing Syria, maybe […]

Friday Night Music Briefly returns

After all, he won the Nobel Prize. I don’t know if he deserved it, but he didn’t not deserve it, if you know what I mean. It’s not all that easy to find acceptable videos of Dylan doing his own music, especially from the early days. I had to reject what I could find of […]

Traditional Good Friday music and more

This is Good Friday, so like all good graduates of Our Lady of Sorrows grammar school, I must make note of the day. It is a day sacred to Christians. Even many of us heathens get it off, so I am able to sit here at home and write this blog post. I am not […]

Easter comes to Our Lady of Sorrows

I have mentioned in the past that I learned everything one need know about religion and the Catholic Church (a redundancy, since the Catholic Church is the one true church) at Our Lady of Sorrows School grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut. This institution of lower learning is no more; there has been some progress in […]

Friday Night Music, a Strange Double Header

We are currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of the arrival on these shores of the greatest popular music group that ever existed. I hesitate to call them the greatest rock ‘n roll group, because their range was so much broader, so in that narrow category we will let the Stones reign supreme. But no one […]

Friday Night Music

Well, this weeks choice should be no surprise. Pete Seeger died this week, so he’s the obvious choice. The folk craze crested just before I became musically conscious. I got my transistor radio when I was about nine, but if they weren’t playing it on the Big D, I didn’t hear it, and they weren’t […]

Friday Night Music

What can I say? It is cold outside.