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Tue 14 Jan 2020

Music I’m Listening To: VIRGINIA SCHENCK “Poor Wayfaring Stranger.”

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From Atlanta-based jazz vocalist Virginia Schenck’s second album, Interior Notions:

Tue 31 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: FOXES AND FOSSILS “Harvest Moon.”

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Foxes and Fossils is a group brand new to me, but their version of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” is one I’ve already listened to several times over:

Tue 24 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: DARLENE LOVE “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Sun 22 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: THE STANDELLS “Dirty Water.”

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To my mind, this is the greatest garage rock song of all time:

Thu 19 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS “Creeque Alley.”

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Mon 16 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: KIM CARNES “Bette Davis Eyes..”

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Nine weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981 and Grammy Award winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Sat 14 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To: BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS “And When I Die.”

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I bought this LP when it first came out in December 1968, and it knocked my socks off. I played so often I think I wore the grooves down to nubbins. I wasn’t the only one. It won the 1970 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Here’s my favorite track from it:

Sun 8 Dec 2019

Music I’m Listening To, Selected by David Phillips: KIRSTY MACCOLL “In These Shoes?”

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SELECTED BY DAVID PHILLIPS:

Steve, From the videos you choose to show us on your blog, you and I seem to have a lot of the same tastes in music. I wanted to know if you have ever listened to Kirsty Maccoll, and mainly her Tropical Brainstorm album. She’s an English girl singing Spanish tunes, and for some reason the whole album works. The most famous song from it is “In These Shoes.”

Sad story, this album was released to great reviews and she ended up dying in a boating accident several months later.

I just had a friend borrow my CD and tell me how much he enjoyed her music, so when I was listening to the Marianne Faithfull song you posted, I thought of you, and hope you enjoy it. The rest of the album is great, but I’m not sure if any or all of the other songs are online.

Thu 5 Dec 2019