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Looking back, there’s something very telling in the first video clip I embedded here which you can watch below. In it we see one Jay Alanski participating in Thierry Ardisson’s popular “Le Blind Test” – a show where celebrities and/or musicians are presented with excerpts from records, quizzed whether they can guess what’s playing. What’s…
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Dire Straits 1979 Before I attempt to present a quasi-Southern journey through the good ole USA, I’d like to stick just a tiny bit more in England, London specifically. From London, hails one of the greatest purveyors of down home open road rock music, Mr. Mark Knopfler. Seemingly, the mutant musical offspring of JJ Cale,…
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Danny Kirwan and Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac If, you’re still following my theme for this month, a selection of driving songs (one for the trip somewhere and one for the trip home), you’d notice I’ve downshifted somewhat. After a while of just red-lining songs its better to engage some cruise control and maintain efficient momentum…
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Wishbone Ash – 1972 Let’s continue to blur the lines between driving and homecoming songs a bit more. Continuing on this August driving playlist of mine I want to include more songs that converge on that open road feeling. Its a feeling that at the end of the day must remain lighter, yet have a…
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The following tracks of the day before Thursday are all preludes to my full out month long dive into Brazilian music. I say this because my track of the day Captain Beyond’s “Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)” touches on something I’ve been worried about. I sometimes wonder where all the great…
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Oh! The power of boogie rock. If, I’m a doe-eyed sucker for anything, its a good rock boogie. I don’t know why boogie rock has that power over me, as much I fight it I can’t. What’s boogie if not just a well chosen riff hypnotically repeated with cool shit going on around it? Status…
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Now ain’t this some bs. I was so prepared to link to this track from the Searchers on Spotify. Apparently, Sire really f’ed up the rights for the album this song, Love’s Melody, came from. Anyway, we’re doing it live. Now, talk about a redemption story! 20 or 15 years after releasing their most popular…
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