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For Fred Heads and Soon to Be
I’m really into Fred Eaglesmith these days. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, you owe it to yourself to take a listen. That playlist is pretty much the soundtrack to my life these days. Filed...
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The Last Days of Fillmore West
Fillmore West was a historic music venue in San Francisco, California made famous by concert promoter Bill Graham. Named after Graham’s original “Fillmore” location at the intersection of Fillmore...
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Steve Miller Band – Steppin’ Stone
Those who only know the Steve Miller Band from Take the Money and Run forward missed their best work and the enduring reason why (some of) their music remains on the Rancho DeNada playlist. In 1968 the...
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Rumours, 35 Years and the Night I Almost Got Killed for Changing a Record
Hitfix has a great read about Fleetwood Mac’s excellent Rumours album, released 35 (actually 36) years ago. There is a new deluxe edition, that I’ll have to check out (here’s the Spotify link)....
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Is this the Best Song Ever?
Or just one of them. That’s the only question. Well, maybe there’s just one more question… If I can’t trust you with a quarter, how can I trust you with my heart? Zoe Muth. When you moved a little...
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Under Cover: Friend of the Devil
I really like good covers of good songs. I have a large (and excellent) Spotify playlist centered around cover songs. So when I saw someone with the Grateful Dead say that this was possibly the best...
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Yes, Virginia, There is Still Good CCR
Probably 75% of the music I listen to was recorded over 20 years ago. As a result, one of the issues I face is artist fatigue. One example- I used to love Creedence Clearwater Revival, but their...
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David Collins Was a Cream Fan!
I am re-watching the entire original Dark Shadows series as treadmill fare. I’ve watched it twice before, once as a kid when it was on the air and once when it was on the Sci-Fi Channel back in the...
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My Current Favorite Song: Shaky
Somehow I missed this record when it came out, but my goodness do I love this song. The Duke and the King – Shaky. “Shaky makes me all so shaky mama C’mon wake me up We go dancing however you wanna...
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Lindi Ortega – Murder of Crows
At the risk of sounding like my parents, to my kids who think good music is the big-media-created, studio-enhanced drivel that pollutes their iPhones, I say this. That is music, friends. Lindi...
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Look How My Face Smiles and Shines
All you ask for is family. I’ve had your fists, your love, your suffering. All these years of coming clean, but never heard or seen. Mount MoriahFiled under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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I Saw My Baby One Morning
I saw my baby one morning And she was walking on down the street I saw my baby one morning Yeah, she was walking on down the street Elmore James – The Sky is CryingFiled under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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And the Astrodome and the First Tepee
The first pro football and pro baseball games I saw in person were in the Astrodome. It was truly a wonder to a country boy like me. But like the rest of us that came to be in the 60’s, it’s old and...
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Let’s Not Be L-7
Hatty told Matty “Let’s don’t take no chance. Let’s not be L-seven, come and learn to dance.” Los Pacaminos – Wooly Bully (live in studio)Filed under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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You Love Me Up, You Tear Me Down
Sally Green You sure are mean Go ahead and do The things you do You love me up You tear me down You break my broken heart Right in two. Fred Eaglesmith More Fred via my Fred Head Spotify...
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The Way I’m Livin’, It’s Gonna Cause My Heart to Ache
The wayward son He never gets nothing done If I had some money, I’d be on the run But all the money I had is gone All the money I had is gone. The Deep Dark WoodsFiled under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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A Beat Up Ford and a Jug of Wine
Blossoms in the apple trees, Full of birds and buzzing bees It’s summertime. The Bootleggers, featuring Emmylou Harris – Cosmonaut Filed under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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She Knew My Intentions
I’m a headin’ out to the west, son I got some tending got to do there Tell your brothers, tell your sisters Tell ‘em take care The Sumner Brothers – Going Out WestFiled under: Music Tagged: goodsongs
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Come on Baby Don’t Be Cold as Ice
You know what today is, right? It’s One After 909. Much of The Beatles’ catalog, while excellent, now bores me to tears, because I’ve heard every song several hundred times (or more). One After 909...
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Y’all Stay With Me ‘Till I Come Down
Tramp You can call me that If it’ll make you feel good Notice how Junior only sings about 15 words, but still owns this song. And that guitar…. This and All Night Long, from his record God Knows I...
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