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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Summertime / New York: Summer, Highland Falls

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Billy Joel: Summer, Highland Falls [ purchase ] Halfway between Yonkers and Poughkeepsie, just an hour from the bustling crowds of New York...

Summertime: Long Hot Summer Days

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John Hartford: Long Hot Summer Days [ purchase ] It's been over 90 degrees in East Tennessee every day this week. We aren't exactly...

Summertime: Summer Dreams Edition

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Amy Rigby: The Summer of My Wasted Youth [ purchase ] - Middlescence CD Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns [ purchase ] It'...

Summertime: Natsu no Yuutsu (Summer Melancholy)

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hyde and the boys are sorry to say goodbye to our week-long summer tribute L'Arc~en~Ciel : Natsu no Yuutsu (Summer Melancholy) P...

Summertime: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Edition

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Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: This Summer's Been Good from the Start Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Face Like Summer [ purchase ] Gorky's...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Summertime: Woodstock

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Summertime is music festival season. It’s one of the first things I think of when I think of summer. So, the week must not go by without thi...

Summertime: Mississippi Summer

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June Tabor and the Oysterband: Mississippi Summer [ purchase ] The original recording of this tune from American folksinger Si Khan drips w...

Summertime: Summer Samba (So Nice)

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Eliane Elias : Summer Samba (So Nice) [ purchase ] Bossa nova, that Brazilian jazzy sound that swept the US in the 60's, always seem...

Summertime: Bus Stop

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Lori Lieberman : Bus Stop [ purchase ] I wanted to behave myself. I wanted to post Bus Stop this week, and I wanted to follow the informal r...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Summertime: Summer of Drugs

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Soul Asylum: Summer of Drugs [ purchase ] Ack! - I have three perfectly good Summertime original songs to post for this week... but far be...

Summertime: In the Summertime

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Shaggy ft. Rayvon : In the Summertime [ purchase ] Mungo Jerry's #1 hit In the Summertime will always take me right back to the beac...

Summertime: Boys of Summer

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Bree Sharp: Boys of Summer [ Purchase ] A cover of a song about summer? Hey, I can do that too! Don Henley's 1984 hit "Boys of Sum...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Summertime: Summer Evening

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Gillian Welch: Summer Evening [ purchase ] Have we really fallen into an all-covers subtheme this week? Then far be it for the resident c...

Summertime: Summer Wine

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Ville Valo & Natalia Avelon : Summer Wine [ purchase ] Summer Wine is a male-female duet made popular by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy S...

Summertime: Summer Breeze

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The Isley Brothers: Summer Breeze [ purchase ] There is a long history in pop music of white artists covering songs by black artists. In t...

Summertime: Dancing in the Street

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Jimmy Barnes : Dancing in the Street [ purchase ] The time is right for this one. Apparently, Ella Fitzgerald absolutely nailing Summertime ...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Summertime: Summertime

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Ella Fitzgerald : Summertime [ purchase ] Let’s begin with this week’s theme song. Summertime, of course comes from George Gershwin’s classi...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

All Apologies: Green Monster Edition

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No, this post is not about a famous wall in Fenway Park in Boston. The green monster I refer to is jealousy. It is one of our most powerful ...

All Apologies: "Regrets? I've Had a Few" Edition

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Susan Werner: Sorry About Jesus [ purchase ] Ani DiFranco: Superhero [ purchase ] Dory Previn: Left Hand Lost [ purchase ] Where does ...

All Apologies: Glad and Sorry

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Faces: Glad and Sorry [ purchase ] "Glad and Sorry" is a bittersweet Ronnie Lane song from the last Faces album, Ooh La La . It...
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