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October 2014

October 03, 2014

You’ve Heard Shatner; Introducing Mrs. Miller

So one of my FaceBook friends posted this video of Nancy Sinatra singing her trademark...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Remembering Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach

I don't really remember Dionne Warwick. Well, except that she sang a surprising number of...

September 12, 2014

Dance to the Tune of Elsie Marley!

I have met at least two folk songs that speak in their lyrics of dancing...

September 05, 2014

He’s Tasty But A Little Stringy

Who? The Doctor, of course. Here's the Dr. Who theme on cellos, just because.

August 2014

August 29, 2014

More Lovecraftian Rock and Roll

I was just listening to Pandora, and a song came on that I hadn't heard...

August 22, 2014

Music to Flee Shoggoths By

I discovered H.P. Lovecraft the summer I turned 14 or 15. That's not quite right....

August 15, 2014

Byker Hill: Collier Lads For Ever More (Now with Trombones!)

"Byker Hill" is an English folk song about coal miners in Newcastle; and not coincidentally,...

August 08, 2014

The Aquabats: Magic Chicken and Midget Pirates, with Snakes

Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a track from one of the stranger albums in my...

August 01, 2014

Stan Rogers: Watching the Apples Grow

I've finally got my Internet access back (at close-of-business on Thursday) and so I'm scrambling...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

My, My, This Here Anakin Guy…

We were on vacation last week, and during the week the kids managed to watch...

July 18, 2014

Bertie Fit the Battle of Jericho!

Because I enjoyed it so much last week, here's another track from Hugh Laurie's album...

July 11, 2014

Bertie Wooster Sings the Blues!

Pandora has a way of surprising me...but I was astonished when a blues track called...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Mago de Oz: La Leyenda de la Llorona

Here's another song that comes across my Pandora regularly, by a Spanish heavy metal band...

June 20, 2014

Mississippi Squirrel Revival!

Ray Stevens' classic novelty song "The Mississippi Squirrel Revival" randomly appeared in my music stream...

June 13, 2014

Wondrous Love, by Blue Highway

So Elizabeth Scalia sent me a YouTube video the other day, a performance of the...

June 06, 2014

Mark Knopfler, Southbound Again

I was a sophomore in high school when Dire Straits made it big with "Sultans...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Celebrating the Full Orchestral Grunt

Or, another chapter in the long-running series, "Odd Things from Pandora". So across Pandora one...

May 22, 2014

Levon Helm and the Dixie Hummingbirds: When I Go Away

A few years before his death, Levon Helm of The Band recorded an album called...

May 16, 2014

Ringo meets Irving at High Noon

I discovered the Dr. Demento show when I was in Junior High School in the...

May 09, 2014

Anúna: Choral Music with an Edge

When I posted some songs in Gaelic a few weeks ago, Joseph Susanka pointed out...

May 02, 2014

Still Alive! (Except the ones who are dead)

So Joseph Susanka listened to The Wishing Wife last week, and liked it; and then...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Wishing Wife, and a Dog’s Life

The neat thing about Pandora is that I hear songs I would never have heard...

April 11, 2014

Sandra Boynton: Delightful Goofiness

Most people, I suppose, know Sandra Boynton from her line of greeting cards with Recycled...

April 04, 2014

The Full Goofy: Shel Silverstein

Last week I looked at beautiful singing in Gaelic, continuing a general Irish/Celtic theme around...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

The Beauty of Gaelic

One of the things I love about Irish music are the songs sung in Gaelic....

March 21, 2014

Old Blind Dogs: Kincardine Lads

I've been enjoying a Scottish group called Old Blind Dogs recently; my favorite by them,...

March 14, 2014

The High Kings: Close Harmony

The High Kings is one of the Irish groups that comes across my Pandora station...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

The Leaving of Liverpool

"The Leaving of Liverpool" is one of the "Irish" tunes I've been listening to quite...

February 07, 2014

Tramps and Hawkers

One of the songs I've been enjoying recently, both as listener and as player, is...

February 05, 2014

A Really Bad Day At Work

Today, Joseph Susanka posted multiple versions of a song I've been enjoying quite a bit...