Author: mystro2b

Dirty Back Road by The B-52’s

The song’s single verse-bridge-chorus structure gets two outings, fading in and out with the rumblings of roadside fauna. Far from laziness, this looping arrangement allows Ricky Wilson’s freewheeling spirit to live on, taking the listener on an endless journey to satisfaction.

https://affordablepoverty.com/2017/01/13/the-b52s-dirty-back-road-review-classic/

All Aboard by Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913  – April 30, 1983),^[1][2] known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the “father of modern Chicago blues“.^[3] His style of playing has been described as “raining down Delta beatitude“.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin’ Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player. Originally from Mississippi, he moved to Chicago in adulthood and became successful, forming a rivalry with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf

Joe Friday by Alvin Youngblood Hart

I Will Posses Your Heart by Death Cab for Cutie

Eight and a half minute track with 4:42 seconds of the most infectious ostinato before a single word is sung.

Deee-Lite by Deee-Lite

This album is 30 years old, but it sounds like it was mixed last week. Funky stuff worth your attention.

Say it Ain’t So by Weezer

In Ben Folds recent memoir A Dream About Lightning Bugs Folds talks about the definition of cool music in the nineties:

It was, after all, cool to be bored in the nineties. Apathy, like the beautiful feathers of an exotic male bird, is what attracted a mate in that era. Back then, we rockers worshipped the slacker above everyone else, except maybe for the suicidal…So I imagined a battle between two great forces of don’t-give-a-shit-ness: the characters General Apathy and Major Boredom. And though I poked fun at it, I secretly thought all this apathy business was, well…cool.

p. 276, A Dream About Lightning Bugs

Cue Weezer

Greenfields by The Brothers Four

Another childhood song from Dad’s album collection. Sigh.

California Way by Tim Bluhm

I grew up near “Steinbeck’s Eden…” the opening lyric of this haunting ballad. I love the simple acoustic guitar and Tim’s plaintive voice. The illustration from the album cover below is all you need to imagine the artists pouring his heart out to a single mic in a cozy studio.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

“Bohemian Rhapsody” topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and had sold more than a million copies by the end of January 1976.^[4] In 1991, after Mercury’s death, it topped the charts for another five weeks,^[5] eventually becoming the UK’s third best-selling single of all time.^[6]  The single was accompanied by a groundbreaking promotional video.^[9] Rolling Stone stated that its influence “cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air.”^[10] 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody

Song for My Father by Art Farmer

Today is my Father’s 81st birthday. Happy birthday Bob. The opening drum roll by Roger Humphries is such a cool sonic signature for this song. It has been a notification tone on my phone for years. Be patient and enjoy the needle skip at around 3:25.