Steve Poltz raises a glass and sings to modern medicine!
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“This Is My First Beer With My Brand New Liver”
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Time…Time…
Monday morning, the Chambers Brothers keep hitting that clock, as the “Time Has Come Today.”
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Trash
So, I thought Steve Poltz was just a hilarious goodtime folkie. Little did I suspect that he’s also a songwriting genius. His song “Trash” is one of the most haunting songs I’ve heard in many a day.
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Fistfight At A Vegan Brunch
Monday morning, a short-haired Steve Poltz sings the truth concerning an unfortunate knuckle sandwich incident.
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Beach Boys Campfire: Surfer Girl
This was from a TV special shown only once, a nice end of summer treat.
Thanks to YouTuber Dan Thomas | Travel and Music
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Apache: The Shadows
The Shadows, though not very big in the US, were successful in the UK during the early 1960s, pretty much at the same time as the Beatles. But even in the US, this instrumental was a song that every garage band of the time couldn’t wait to learn in order to play it at their high school get-togethers.
Thanks to YouTuber Classic Hits Studio
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Folksinger: Steve Poltz
Monday morning, madman Steve Poltz pleases the crowd with his song about the travails of a folksinger.
Thanks to YouTuber Brian Gilbert
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I’d Love To Change The World
Fifty-three years after Ten Years After, a powerful video to accompany the song.
Thanks to YouTuber Ricardo Meneghini
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Vincent
Monday morning, a very lovely cover of the Don McLean classic song about Mr. Van Gogh, performed by George Clements.
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Long Time Gone
Josh Turner, Elle Cordova, and Toni Lindgren take on a Dixie Chicks song with toe-tapping results.
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Blues Run The Game
Monday morning, a haunting song by Jackson C. Frank, a folk singer who was not well known, but was influential. Simon & Garfunkel recorded this song for their Sounds of Silence album, but it didn’t make it into the original release. Years later, it was added as a bonus track to the Sounds of Silence CD. If Jackson Frank’s arrangement sounds very early Paul Simon-ish here, it’s because Paul Simon was the producer of Frank’s only album.
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The Many Plans and Schemes of John Prine
What the late John Prine figgered he’d do when he got to heaven. And he probably is.
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Everything I Own
Monday morning, David Gates singing lead with Bread in this 1972 song–according to Gates, written about his father.
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Something So Right: George Clements
Marieke: Jacques Brel
Monday morning a rare clip of Brel singing his own song to a passionate fare-thee-well.
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Dream
Sonny Step, Josh Turner, Allison Young, and Martina DaSilva with a soulful cover of the 1944 Johnny Mercer song, “Dream,” originally sung by the Pied Pipers.
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Their Back Pages
Monday morning, the Lockdown International Band with a cover of Dylan’s “My Back Pages.”
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We Gotta Get Outta This Place
From A Bundle of Blues
A hot jazz dance routine by Bessie Dudley and Florence Hill with the Duke Ellington Orchestra providing the notes
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Kathy’s Song
Monday morning, an early Paul Simon song for his then girlfriend from England, Kathy Chitty (still living in Wales). This is one of the few songs that came out on a Simon and Garfunkel album that was sung solo by Paul Simon. Later at some Simon and Garfunkel concerts, Art would sing the song, but to my mind, Paul’s version was more affecting. Garfunkel has said that he thought it was Paul Simon’s best love song.
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“My 500th Video”: Josh Turner
Regular readers of this blog know that I really enjoy musician Josh Turner’s videos. His musicianship is amazing and every collaboration he is part of seems to bring out the best in his collaborators.
To mark his 500th YouTube video Josh and wife Kelly put together a compilation of all his videos, starting from the 15 year old Josh to right now, as Josh does a voiceover commentary,
I highly recommend exploring his catalogue at Josh Turner Guitar
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Samba Ukelele
Allison Young and Josh Turner with a delightful samba inspired tune.
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Long Monday: John Prine
Monday morning, one of my favorite singer/songwriters, John Prine, with a lovely little song. Not sure who the accompanying singer is, but one of the YouTube comment writers thinks it’s Mindy Smith.
This one is particularly nice with headphones.
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Purple People Eater
This is one of the first ever songs I remember hearing on the radio. I must have been about five years old. It’s sung by the..uh…less-than-dynamic?…Sheb Wooley.
Thanks to YouTuber The Ed Sullivan Show
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Teach Your Children: MonaLisa Twins
Monday morning, though school is out, lesson plans from Crosby Stills and Nash. In this version, twins Mona & Lisa, and their father Rudi on bass.
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