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Friday Night Music, the late great Lou Reed

Friday, November 1, 2013

This is becoming an occasional feature, but this week I had to bring it back. Lou Reed was a giant of rock, and his passing cannot go unnoticed. A lot of great music, the obvious being Walk on the Wild Side, but I decided to go with Perfect Day. I found several really good versions, and since […]

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Friday Night Music Returns

Friday, October 18, 2013

At least I think it will, assuming I can tie some disparate strands together. Now that Obama has won his victory over the contumacious tea partiers, we can safely go back to criticizing him for his many failings, chief among which is his coddling of Wall Street. Pam Martens, the normally sensible blogger at Wall […]

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Friday Night Music Returns

Friday, August 23, 2013

After a vacation sabbatical, during which I was just too lazy to search around. Today’s choice breaks a rule. One I’ve broken before, for this is the second time Kermit the Frog has made an appearance on this feature (last time singing the Talking Head’s Once in a Lifetime) and it’s a sad fact that […]

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Friday Night Music-Happy Birthday Mick

Friday, July 26, 2013

So, I just learned Mick Jagger turned 70 today, so I really must reprise the greatest Rock n’ Roll song ever.

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Friday Night Features

Friday, July 26, 2013

So, this week I'll be combining my "good news" feature with some appropriate music, killing two birds with one stone, if you will. First, for the good news, how about this, the development of a new, more improved method of harvesting the sun's energy: Solar panels are becoming passé. Why put solar panels on top […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, July 19, 2013

As promised in the previous post, I’ve gone looking for happy songs. I’ve found a bunch. Take your pick, or watch them all. First up, Sir Paul (the Beatles version not being available on video) singing Good Day, Sunshine. Willie Nelson, singing’ about Blue Skies: Dick van Dyke, lip syncing in the movie version of […]

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Friday Night Music, 4th of July Edition (A look back), and a bit of a rant

Friday, July 5, 2013

Well, another national natal day has passed, but just barely, and festivities certainly go on around our great land, so it’s only appropriate that we give another listen to the song that should be our National Anthem. This performance is by Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and the assembled multitude. It brings back memories of those […]

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Monday Night Music-Wendy

Monday, July 1, 2013

This is the sort of thing that makes me re-think my position about re-opening talks with the Confederacy. We definitely want to keep folks like this. The Bright Light Social Hour of Austin (where else in Texas?), honors the most famous state senator in the world:

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Friday Night Music

Friday, June 28, 2013

Okay, it’s somewhat depressing, but the obituaries do provide great fodder for this feature, which I am really contemplating either retiring or lightening up on the no repeat artists rule. Anyway, Bobby Bland died this week, so he’s the featured artist. I do remember listening to some of his music on my first transistor radio, […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, June 21, 2013

This is the Midsummer's Night isn't it, and summer begins, some went searching for a summer song. While I myself don't actually have the Summertime Blues this seemed like a decent choice, especially because I really don't have a whole lot of time to go looking around for music. We are on a bit of […]

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