Category: music

#MMB July 2025 — “4th of July,” by Soundgarden, from Superunknown

image link takes you to info on the cover art I was first introduced to Soundgarden by my older son. After, “Spoonman” became a hit and got radioplay, he bought the album it was on, “Superunknown,” their fourth album, released in 1994. Another song that got a lot of radioplay from the album was, “Black…

Read More

Music that strikes a chord — “Groundhog Day” by Double Trouble

I was listening to Doyle Bramhall II’s playlist this afternoon and Spotify played this after the playlist was done.  First time hearing it and ooh boy this song strikes a chord, both in lyrics and the badassery of the musicianship.   Looking little further into the context of this song, I learned that Groundhog Day (aka…

Read More

Friday Favorite Feature 44 — Doyle Bramhall II playlist

You’ve heard me mention Doyle Bramhall II a time or 2.  Over the break I decided to create a Spotify playlist of my favorite songs from the albums I have of his.  I played this playlist MANY times since creating it and it is solid.  Please give his music a listen and let me know…

Read More

#MMB 2025– July — “Black Day in July,” by Gordon Lightfoot

[I wrote the song] as a newspaper man would write an article.— Gordon Lightfoot, about “Black Day in July”   Gordon Lightfoot remains one of my most beloved love song writers/balladeers, but he’s just as phenomenal at chronicling impactful bits of human history.  Most everybody knows his song, “Edmund Fitzgerald.”  He’s written about colonizing nature’s…

Read More

#SLS — “Down to You,” by Joni Mitchell, from Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark is #113 on the 2012 list and #110 in the 2020 list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Court and Spark was Joni’s 6th studio album. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. I’m actually surprised at…

Read More