After seeing Jim’s prompt (suggested by Clive of Take It Easy,) my first thought was Cake songs, who seem to like to sing about cars. Over seven albums, they’ve done Race Car Ya-Yas, Stickshifts and Safetybelts, Long Line of Cars, Wheels, Carbon Monoxide, Easy to Crash. Cake is an environmentally aware group. They know how…
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FFF 56 — West Michigan Skies and Mad Dogs & Englishmen reboot by Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell & Friends
The last couple of weeks we’ve had clouds in the skies and some pretty heavy rain. I took a couple of pictures on Sunday night out back of pink and grey clouds. Today (Thursday,) after a trip to the library, I decided to drive out along the lake (Lake MI) and was amazed at the…
#MMB October — “All This Time” by Sting
I lived next to a shipyard when I was young and it was a very powerful image of this huge ship towering above the house. Tapping into that was a godsend – I began with that and the album just flowed. – Sting Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (b. 10/2/51,) known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter,…
#SLS — “Bones” by The Killers
When I saw Jim’s prompt, I had no particular song in mind but I wanted one that had bones in it. Something for the listener to gnaw on when they heard it. Doing a YouTube search with bone, this one popped up. Have you ever listened to an album and apprehended it via the musical…
FFF 55 — Release Radar week faves
I’ve started to listen to release radar again. Now that I have a ginormous number of liked music and musicians they can base customized new release playlists on them. The playlists run from Friday to Thursday, so this batch is from 10/10-10/16. Every one of these songs are winners in my book. DAMFINE :) I’ve…
“No Code” by Pearl Jam
Was just putting it back together from Sunday (now you see how busy I’ve been!) and realized I hadn’t opened that 4th fold. Here is the fully opened CD cover. IIRC this was one of the first paper folded CD covers I bought. Up to then full hard plastic. I remember thinking PJ cares about…
#FF — Cupid’s Bow
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox Cupid’s Bow Memoir. Year 1961 “Meet you at Cupid’s Bow at three!,” Bobby’s fading voice said as we each rode our bikes away from each other. Bobby didn’t need to say it because it had been our routine every day without fail this summer. My family was headed back to…
Tao-Talk 