Category Archives: song of the day

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Song of the Day #2,616: ‘All My Love is Gone’ – Lyle Lovett

joshuajudgesMy fourth favorite album of 1992 is Lyle Lovett’s fourth studio album, Joshua Judges Ruth. This was the first new material released by Lovett since I’d discovered his jazz-blues-country masterpiece …and His Large Band.

Joshua Judges Ruth, cleverly named after three consecutive books of the Bible, strayed even further from Lovett’s country roots. The only true country tune here is ‘She’s Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To.’ Lovett’s deadpan humor isn’t on display here, either, as most of these songs deal with loss of love or life.

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Song of the Day #2,615: ‘Little Angel, Little Brother’ – Lucinda Williams

sweetoldworldToday’s album is the first in my top ten 1992 records that I discovered well after the year it was released. Lucinda Williams simply wasn’t on my radar back then.

But she was very much on my radar a decade later, after I fell in love with Car Wheels On a Gravel Road and started gobbling up the rest of her catalog.

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Song of the Day #2,614: ‘Dime Cuando Comenzo el Dolor’ – Ely Guerra

amoresperrosFourteen years before he took home Oscars for writing, directing and producing Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu made his feature film debut with Amores Perros. It’s a much better film.

Last year, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was robbed of the big prize, which made it impossible for me to cheer on Iñárritu, who I’ve rooted for ever since he blew me away in 2001 — even as each film that followed Amores Perros was a little less successful than the last.

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Song of the Day #2,613: ‘So This is Love’ – Cinderella

cinderellaToday’s Random iTunes selection comes from an album of Disney Princess songs we bought for my daughter’s years ago.

It’s a pretty great album, featuring such songs as ‘A Whole New World,’ ‘Part of Your World,’ ‘Colors of the Wind,’ ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight,’ and ‘Belle.’ I always thought it was weird that it didn’t include ‘Beauty and the Beast.’

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Song of the Day #2,612: ‘Dream in Blue’ – Los Lobos

lobos_kikoI’ve written about this before on the blog, but it was almost five years ago so I don’t mind repeating myself.

I discovered Los Lobos’ Kiko at a listening station in a Blockbuster music store just outside of Coral Gables. I listened to a handful of tracks until I’d heard enough to know I had to buy the thing right then and there. That’s what a spur-of-the-moment music download looked like in 1992.

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