The incomparable Everly Brothers were probably my favorite group while I was growing up. I love harmony, and harmony doesn’t get much better than the Everly brothers. Like many groups that employ close harmony, they were siblings (duh – “Everly … Continue reading →
She certainly astounded me, anyway. No wonder she has over 17 million views. If you want to learn the technique in your spare time, here’s a lesson from the same woman: And here’s a longer lesson from someone else:
Continue reading →For the last week or so I’ve been periodically entertaining myself by journeying back in time through the popular music of my earlier days (and they’re all earlier days, aren’t they?). It’s a good distraction from the angst of contemplating … Continue reading →
On Saturday I wrote a post comparing the attitudes of the singer in several breakup songs. One of those songs was “Red Rubber Ball,” which I’ve just recently discovered, to my great surprise, was written by Paul Simon (and Bruce … Continue reading →
Is he going to just let her walk away? Or is he going to plead with her to come back? Then again, maybe she’s been giving him mixed messages. This song, written by Bruce Springsteen, was popularized in a female … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] This is the first night of Chanukah, and I wish everyone a happy one. Chanukah is about a successful revolt and a miracle of light: The miracle of the … Continue reading →
…a river. I’m not putting this up as some sort of message. Nothing but the music:
Continue reading →It struck me the other day that there are a lot of songs with knees in them. Yes, knees, those things in the middle of your legs. I could probably find a lot more songs if I looked it up, … Continue reading →
Here’s commenter Bryan Lovely, speaking about the 1973 Bob Dylan song [see *NOTE below] : “Forever Young” sure has a different meaning in my fifties than when I was nineteen. Still love that song. May God bless and keep you … Continue reading →
Somehow I missed the fact that a while back Leonard Cohen’s son and some other musicians and technicians put out a recording of posthumous new songs by Cohen, who had recorded the bare bones of them when he was near … Continue reading →
Joe Biden: "Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care runnin' a, you know, a department store uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies department … Continue reading →
If you want to read evidence of the republic’s further slide into “Idiocracy”-squared, please see this. We’ve come a long way, baby, and it’s not in the right direction. I can’t say I’ve paid special attention to the lyrics of … Continue reading →