Saturday, June 19, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Spencer and Spencer

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Here's a tie-in post. This ties in Stagger Lee with my recent series of posts on Break-In Records. Spencer and Spencer were actually Dic...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Silly Sundays - John and Ernest - Superfly Meets Shaft

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Remember how I was supposed to be doing a month of break-in records , right before my computer broke itself? Well, here's post #2. In 19...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Frank Morey

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Frank Morey ( official AMG FB MyS profile ) is a Massachusetts blues-folk type of guy, with a perfect gravelly voice. Like Waits and Wol...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Otis Redding - A Man And A Woman (Things Go Better With Coke)

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So while my computer was broken, I was stuck with what I had uploaded to my MP3 player, which turned out to be this wonderful Otis Redding b...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Foghorn Stringband

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Foghorn Stringband ( official bio AMG MyS FB ) are an old-timey bluegrass band from Portland, OR. They just completed a major European t...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - The David Bromberg Band

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Hi, everyone! I'm finally back, after a nice sabbatical. I had all sorts of musical and real-life adventures, and I'll be back next ...
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Friday, April 9, 2010

Craven Apology

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Hi, everyone. My computer is currently out of order, so I won't be posting anything new until I get it fixed. As a slight apology, pleas...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Silly Sundays - Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer

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As promised back in December , this kicks off a month of themed Silly Sundays posts about break-in records. And here's the very first br...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Hogman Maxey

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I've mentioned field and prison recordings before in our discussions of Stag, and here's a take on the song from 1952, in Louisiana...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Silly Sundays - 30 Rock - Muffin Top

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Today is my wife's birthday, and in her honor I'm posting her favorite song right now. Since we returned from our honeymoon, we'...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Jerry Nelson - Eye of the Storm

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If you made a list of your 20 favorite songs from all the different Muppet productions, I think you'd find that Jerry Nelson ( archived ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Steve Earle - No Place To Fall

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I'm trying to get back in the habit of posting more random songs here, without so much dependence on theme weeks to post frequently -- l...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Long Cleve Reed and Harvey Hull

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Long Cleve Reed and Harvey Hull were also known as The Down Home Boys, and other than that I can't find anything else about them. They r...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Dom Flemons

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Dom Flemons ( official MySpace AMG ) is better known as one-third of Carolina Chocolate Drops , who are currently on tour promoting their ...
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Champion Jack Dupree

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Champion Jack Dupree ( wiki discography bio MySpace AMG ) was a New Orleans-born boogie-woogie blues piano player, who at various times ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Silly Sundays - Macy Skipper - Goofin' Off

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All right. I've been sitting on this for literally months, trying to write it up. Sadly, I can't find much of anything about Macy Sk...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Margaret Walker

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This is Dr. Margaret Walker ( wiki bio poetry selection ). She was born in Alabama in 1915, went to school in New Orleans, and worked as a...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

John Fogerty - Paradise

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John Fogerty started his solo career under the semi-pseudonym of The Blue Ridge Rangers, and that first album is a wonderful cover album of ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wedding Wednesdays - Ben Folds - The Luckiest

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Here it is, the final song from our wedding, and the one that had the most potential to make me cry. Ben Folds ( official wiki AMG ) is fr...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Broke Toe Rezo

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Broke Toe Rezo ( archived official AMG ) is another guy who's only released one album, so again there's not much about him online....
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Wedding Wednesdays - Michael Bublé - You And I

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Got a few more wedding songs to upload for all of you. This is a song written by Stevie Wonder -- we already heard from him both on this bl...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Patrick Whelan

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Patrick Whelan ( official site ) is an Irish-born folk-blues musician who has since moved to London and, ultimately, Pennsylvania to ply his...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Happy Saint Thurl's Day!

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Hi, everyone. I'm back in town from my wonderful honeymoon, and I'm afraid I let Thurl Ravenscroft's birthday slip up on me. I d...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Sidney Bechet

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Sidney Bechet ( official tribute wiki AMG ) was a master clarinetist and saxophonist, though today you'll only hear him on the clarine...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wedding Wednesdays - Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star

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Corinne Bailey Rae ( official wiki MySpace AMG ) is a British torch-jazz-soul singer. She's about to be everywhere at once since she...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Multiple Mondays: Theme From Shaft

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All right. I've been sitting on these way too long , so let's get this done! Everyone who knows anything about music or pop culture ...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Bobby Pratt and the Rockers

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Howdy, all. Sorry for the recent slack -- not a very auspicious start for this blog in the New Year. (I'm blaming it on residual Christm...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Otis Redding and Carla Thomas - New Year's Resolution

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Hey, all. I don't have a lot of time to write up this post today, but I just wanna say this: Happy New Year! Another decade's come a...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Stagger Lee Saturdays - Billy Glenn and Shelley Taylor

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, Christmas is over. I hope you all had a good one, and that everyone got lots of good swag. Since Christmas is do...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Dan Bryk - Great Adventure

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Here's a quick post, my final one for Christmas 2009. (Edited to point out -- hey, be a fan on Facebook !) Dan Bryk ( official MySpace ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Sesame Street - True Blue Miracle

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I'd planned to post this song as part of the 2009 Christmas mix (theme: colors) but I haven't gotten around to compiling them yet, s...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Christmas In Jail

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Here's the second part of our unit on prison Christmas songs . I've put a lot of these songs into my annual Christmas mix CDs -- see...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Multiple Mondays: Christmas In Prison

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John Prine recorded "Christmas In Prison" for his third album, in 1973, two years after he recorded "Paradise." In the ...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Guestpost: Carolyn Sills - George Bailey

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And here's Travis (previously 1 2 ) to tell you about his favorite Christmas song of 2009: On a whole, 2009 was not a great year for ma...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Kevin Mahler - Pirate's Christmas

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Remember last year when I talked about Suburban Sprawl's free annual Christmas compilation? Well, 2009's is up , but here's a l...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Bob Dylan - A Visit From St. Nicholas

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Here's what I'd hoped Bob's Christmas album would be like. This is a recording from his XM Radio Show Theme Time Radio Hour , wh...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Multiple Mondays: Must Be Santa!

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This will absolutely be the silliest Multiple Monday ever, and it's also another oddball one. We're looking at some wildly different...
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