Category: MusicMonday

Music Monday – “I will shiver the whole night through”

Isolated vocal track of Kurt Cotain singing Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” at MTV Unplugged featuring possibly the most pained scream ever captured on tape. (Apparently

Music Monday – “Starting is easy I have found/In planting a seed, you touch the ground/But planting the seed doesn’t make it grow.”

Sad news about the passing of Canadian rocker, Sass Jordan. Back when I was a teen working in a gas station, the radio station the station’s radio was

Music Monday – “Do you remember/The 21st night of September?/Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders/While chasin’ the clouds away”

A much younger, hipper coworker saw me in the hall before the library opened and said “Happy September 21st to all who celebrate!” I was like “Huh?” and

Music Monday – “Come down, and waste away with me/Down with me/Slow, how you wanted it to be/I’m over my head, out of her head, she sang”

Sad we have to wait seven years between major concerts at Mosaic Stadium but I’m sure this one will be worth the wait! “Everlong” – Foo Fighters

Music Monday – “Her husband, was a hard working man/Just a mile and a half from here/His head was found in a driving wheel/But his body never was found”

Hard to pick the most “pure” moment of Dolly Parton but this one is right up there – on a TV variety show, singing with her entire family,

Music Monday – “She makes the sign of a teaspoon/He makes the sign of a wave/The poor boy changes clothes/And puts on aftershave/To compensate for his ordinary shoes”

Reading a new book about the recording of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and rediscovering an amazingly influential and controversial album: “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – Paul

Music Monday – “Don’t Look Back in Anger” IMAX Trailer

I’ve been an Oasis fan since I was in England in 1995 during the height of Britpop. When they reunited, I was disappointed that the closest show was

Music Monday – “All this talk of getting old/It’s getting me down my love/Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown/This time I’m coming down”

If you’re in a British band called “The Libertines” and have a lifelong history of battling drug addiction, this is a perfect song to cover in a stripped

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