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Atlantic City (Live) – Randy Brown Atlantic City is far and away my favorite song by The Band, which is of course a Bruce Springsteen cover from his critically acclaimed album Nebraska. The Band added some country twang to Springsteen’s somber anthem about New Jersey gangsters and the sentiment of memento mori. Honestly, the Boss’s… Read more
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Bold as Love – Jimi Hendrix Writing about Jimi Hendrix is like trying to take a single photograph that fully captures the scale and awesomeness of the Grand Canyon. Damn near impossible to truly do it justice. One of my favorite Hendrix tracks, “Bold as Love,” is one of the songs I think I would… Read more
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Three Dimes Down – Mike Cooley (Drive By Truckers) Happy Friday the 13th! I had the pleasure of seeing Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers with about 50 others last night at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur. My buddy and I, who went together, have seen the Truckers a couple of times, but this was our… Read more
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Althea – The Grateful Dead One of the best Grateful Dead songs, and possibly my favorite of Jerry Garcia‘s guitar work, “Althea” has an almost muddied or swampy feel to it, while still maintaining the free-spirited vibe they came to be known for. Lyrically, “Althea” is pretty dang cool. It tells the story of a… Read more
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You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon Apologies for the late post today! The 80s are certainly the least visited era of music on this blog, not by design or anything, but more to do with my own taste. With that being said, semi-recently, I did feature Duran Duran, and in recent years, especially… Read more
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Love and Happiness – Al Green Reverend Al Green is my favorite soul singer of all time, with his Greatest Hits album (what an iconic cover, by the way) being on regular rotation year-round for me. Nobody is really able to do it like Al, and while I’m sure everyone knows this song already, give… Read more
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It’s Too Late to Stop Now – Van Morrison Apologies for the late post. Per usual, I’ll highlight my three favorite tracks from the album with potential bonus tunes. Van the man. I’ve written about him before, actually in my second post ever, featuring his song “Caravan” performed live from The Last Waltz, so I’ll… Read more
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Rather than writing about a song today, I figured I could give you guys some nice background music for the day! The Dead show is much better quality, but the Hendrix is a lot of fun as well if you’re a fan. Both were performed on Thanksgiving day about 10 years apart. Enjoy the holiday… Read more
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Pictures of You (Feat. Kate Bollinger) – Drugdealer Drugdealer is a cool little project from the mind of Michael Collins, and the album Hiding In Plain Sight draws heavy inspiration from a late 60s, early 70s sound that was coming out of the West Coast. If you’ve ever seen the outstanding “Documentary Now” show from… Read more
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