Sunday, April 19, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #5 - "Songs She Sang in the Shower," Jason Isbell

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Well, it's been 41 days since my last post.  Has anything happened during that time? This isn't the place to write my thoughts abo...
Sunday, March 08, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #6 - "FEEL." Kendrick Lamar

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"Ain't nobody praying for me." I've been struggling to come up with something profound to say about this song, which beg...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #7 - "She's Not Me," Jenny Lewis

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The Song A Short Story, starring Jeff, Ron and Richard (and featuring Jenny Lewis) I. A Hot July Night, 1973 "If you don't tu...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #8 - "Lightning Bolt," Jake Bugg

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For me, this song's life began with a Gatorade commercial.  This one was on HEAVY rotation when it first came out; you could not watch a...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #9 - "Best Years of My Life," Pistol Annies

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"Hankering" is such a great word.  I'm not exactly sure why it appeals to me so much, but it's one of the words that I t...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #10 - "When the Master Calls the Roll," Rosanne Cash

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To kick off the Top Ten - THE TOP TEN! - we have, without a doubt, the best Civil War ballad that's been written in the 21st Century.  A...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Drive-By Truckers: Fighting the Good Fight

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"The Unraveling," the twelfth studio album from Drive-By Truckers, is not a party record.  You don't really need to play it ...
Saturday, February 08, 2020

For Posterity: The Albums of 2019

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Colorado - Neil Young & Crazy Horse White Noise/White Lines - Kelsey Waldon Desert Dove - Michaela Anne Wildcard - Miranda Lambert ...

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #11 - "New York Banker," Todd Snider

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His Wikipedia page describes Todd Snider as "an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines American, alt-country and...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #12 - "South Dakota," James McMurtry

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As befits a man whose mother was an English professor and whose father is the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #13 - "Runaway," Kanye West

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Oxford defines genius as "exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability." Oxford defines insane as "i...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #14 - "The Jacket," Ashley McBryde

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One of the reasons that I'm determined to keep better notes this year - not quite a diary, but just a set of notes on various things tha...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

"Me" (Elton John, 2019)

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Not even the world's most popular celebrity lives their life in full public view.  However, the degree to which the story of Elton Joh...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #15 - "Burn" and "It's Quiet Uptown," Hamilton (Original Broadway Soundtrack)

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"Hamilton: An American Musical" was the greatest cultural event of the 2010s.  It was also, perhaps, the most unexpected cultural ...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #16 - "We Take Care of Our Own," Bruce Springsteen

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"Wrecking Ball" is probably Bruce Springsteen's most political album, even more so than "The Rising."  In his autobi...

A Dangerous Man (Robert Crais, 2019)

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My introduction to Robert Crais came courtesy of my late Aunt Lenore.  She was always a voracious reader, but after retiring she became wh...