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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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Friday Night Music

Friday, June 7, 2013

So, no rock legends died this week, but chance has come to my rescue. I’ve got my iPod connected to my car stereo system, and my choice of music is pretty much dictated by randomly spinning the selection wheel on the stereo. It’s an uncertain process, since I also have to keep an eye on […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, May 31, 2013

This one is apropos of nothing. Sometimes I get desperate. I came across Kinky as I scrolled through my iTunes library, and I thought, why not?  

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Friday Night Music

Friday, May 24, 2013

I know it’s ghoulish, but my job in this feature gets easier whenever another aging rock star bites the dust. This week Ray Manzarek, a founder of the Doors, went to Rock and Roll Heaven, so I have an excuse to put up some Doors music. I didn’t even try to find stuff that featured […]

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Friday Night Music-Nostalgia edition

Friday, May 17, 2013

These are songs that, at least for me, pre-date my first transistor radio. They have absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world today, and have only a cheery optimism in common. It’s funny the things that stick in your head. When I was a kid I liked this song, and this […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, May 10, 2013

Breaking some rules here, but this song seemed like the perfect follow up to my previous post about the man who used to be a Senator from this great state. No concert videos available, so this will have to do. This was one of those songs that I heard on my first transistor (6 transistors!) […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, May 3, 2013

I saw Iggy Pop on the Colbert Show this week, and it occurred to me that I’d never put him in this feature. Truth to tell I was only dimly aware of his existence back in the day, though I knew he was in the same basic camp as Lou Reed and David Bowie. So, […]

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