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Song of the Day #3,160: ‘Here Comes the Groom’ – John Wesley Harding

harding_groomToday I pick up on my Decades series, where I dive into the albums of a given year in the 70s, 80s, 90 and 00s. I started with my birth year, 1972, then featured 1982, ’92 and ’02. Then I backed up a couple of years to cover 1970 and 1980, and starting today I’ll tackle 1990.

This is the year I turned 18 and started college, a time when I started expanding my musical horizons, and yet I had a hard time coming up with albums I really like from the year. I found a lot more that I missed out on, and I’ll cover those over the next couple of weeks, but this week I’ll count down my five favorite 1990 albums.

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Song of the Day #1,329: ‘The Devil in Me’ – John Wesley Harding

My latest Random Weekend song comes courtesy of John Wesley Harding. ‘The Devil in Me’ is a nifty little power pop take on the themes The Rolling Stones mined so memorably in ‘Sympathy For the Devil.’

I last featured a John Wesley Harding song a little over a year ago and at the time I predicted I’d revisit him five years later. So thanks to iTunes’ random algorithm, I’m four years ahead of schedule.

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Song of the Day #949: ‘Cathy’s New Clown’ – John Wesley Harding

It’s appropriate that I’m featuring a John Wesley Harding song in the midst of my Elvis Costello weekends. The poor man has been compared to Costello so often for so many years… why should he escape that here?

Of course being compared to Elvis Costello is quite a compliment, so I doubt he’s complaining. And he did hire most of The Attractions to back him on his best album, Here Comes the Groom, so it’s not like he doesn’t invite the comparison.

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