Monday Random 10 (Memorial Day edition)

We've got the week off at TWDQ HQ, so we slept in and didn't fire up the Thin Blue Touch until this afternoon.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

The Tragically Hip - Escape Is At Hand for the Travellin' Man
The Meters - Out in the Country
Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
Steely Dan - The Fez
Linda Ronstadt - Love is a Rose
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Bo Conrad - Fiddler Spider
The John Sally Ride - The Girl You Won't Leave Your Wife For
Bruce Springsteen - Hitch Hikin'
Sharon Van Etten - No One's Easy to Love

Bonus 11
The Roots - No John Trumbull (Intro) (from The Hamilton Mixtape)

If you haven't already, check out the fine documentary on The Hip's final tour. The Meters tune is not the Three Dog Night hit. Roger Miller into Steely Dan is quite the transition. Bo Conrad led a terrific jug band (The Bo Conrad Spit Band) of fellow students from a local college in the late 60s/early 70s. This tune's from an album made a few years back. The John Sally Ride have produced a couple of excellent albums of clever power pop and their drummer is our favorite music blogger. 

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Hard to breathe in a mask? How about a ventilator?"), already in progress.

Monday Morning Rock (Belated Edition)

Forgot that we hadn't posted Monday's tunes. (Yeah, like you know what day of the week it is anyway.)

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Dan Zanes - Cuckoo Waltz
The Beatles - Junk (Esher Demo)
Bob Dylan - Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Dwight Yoakam - Honky Tonk Man
Yes - Roundabout
Buena Vista Social Club - El Carretero
The Jayhawks - Poor Little Fish
BeauSoleil - Valerie
Tegan and Sara - Closer
Old Crow Medicine Show - Just Like a Woman

Bonus 11
Elton John - Crocodile Rock

We've gone on at length about Dan Zanes' wonderful Parades and Panoramas album of songs from Carl Sandburg's Great American Songbag. It came out a few months before Springsteen's Seeger Sessions album and was so loose and fun that it made the latter sound like Bruce was telling you to eat your vegetables. Sir Paul tries out a tune during the White Album prep that would eventually land on his first solo record. BeauSoleil cover a Richard Thompson tune, and the OCMS tune is from their excellent live romp through Blonde on Blonde, which is every bit as loose and fun as the aforementioned Zanes record.

Also, the iPod Touch is apparently aware that we're currently reading Sir Elton's autobiography. (Apple just knows stuff, I tell ya.)

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("25th Amendment, anyone?"), already in progress.

Monday Random Ten (Ernie Banks edition)

Did the random ten last Monday but forgot to post it, so in the immortal words of Ernie Banks, it's a beautiful day, let's play two!

Let's...hit...shuffle!

Monday 5/4/2020
Dave Brady and The Stars - Ridin' High
Bill Staines - Eyes to Eyes
A Girl Called Eddy - Did You See the Moon Tonight
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Dress Blues (Live)
Aretha Franklin - You Send Me (mono)
The Beatles - She Loves You (Live at the BBC)
Southside Johnny with La Bamba's Big Band - Shiver Me Timbers
The Suicide Commandos - Burn It Down
Rosanne Cash - Price of Temptation
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - He Will See You Through

Bonus 11
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Time Of Our Life

Dave Brady's tune's from the great Twin Cities Funk & Soul:  Lost Grooves from Minneapolis/St. Paul 1964-1979 compilation. We've been really digging A Girl Called Eddy for the last couple of months. We also think Jason Isbell has written the most powerful song about the endless war in the Middle East. 

Monday 5/11/2020
Dwight Yoakam - Ring of Fire
Fleetwood Mac - Sara
The Jayhawks - Darling Today (from "Blown Away" soundtrack)
Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years
Jackson Browne - Rock Me on the Water
Neil Young - Southern Man
Vigilantes of Love - Version of the Truth
Peter Gabriel - This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)
Rosanne Cash - Paralyzed
Mark Heard - Tip of My Tongue

Bonus 11
Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You

Dwight Yoakam's debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, etc. etc. is still fantastic. The Jayhawks tune is from the "Blown Away" soundtrack, which also has Aretha doing the great "If You Lose Me". I feel bad for Jackson Browne, having to follow Wolf. Interesting that Ms. Cash shows up batting ninth again.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Really, Ray? We know everyone was doing it, but you thought that chorale singing backups sounded good?")