Song of the Day #1,585: ‘The Thrill is Gone’ – B.B. King
Song of the Day #1,584: ‘Penny Lane’ – Elvis Costello
The recent reelection of President Barack Obama has eaten away at my time, both personally and professionally, to a degree that has endangered my ability to post a new song each day.
I’m actually writing day to day right now, rather than having a week or so worth of blog entries built up as I usually do.
Song of the Day #1,583: ‘Detours’ – Sheryl Crow
I can’t decide what I think of Sheryl Crow. At one point I really liked her music — particularly the Globe Sessions album, which I find strong start to finish — but later I soured on her.
I sometimes detect something inauthentic and sterile in her music, a safeness and blandness that turns me off. But at other times I buy her as the rootsy rock babe she’s always tried to be.
Song of the Day #1,582: ‘Stork & Owl’ – TV On the Radio
Here’s a song from TV On the Radio’s great album Dear Science that tends to get lost in the mix.
‘Stork & Owl’ doesn’t have an easy groove like many of its counterparts. While most of the album is avant garde poetry that passes for dance music, this is avant garde poetry that sounds like exactly that.
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